Hospital league tables: a statistician’s view
Hospital league tables could be returning to the UK. On the 21st anniversary of the…
Sheila M. BirdDecember 2, 2024
Why England’s daily reported Covid-19 deaths are not the number of people that have died in a day
Photo by Hello I'm Nik 🎞 on UnsplashThe UK government provides an update during their…
Nightingale and the coronavirus pandemic: disease prevention, parallels and principles
An imaginary drawing of Florence Nightingale nursing in Scutari, by her sister Parthenope. Photographed at…
Lynn McDonaldApril 30, 2020
Covid-19 data: To age or not to age; to date or not to date?
Pandemic swine-flu, which emerged from Mexico in spring 2009, was a wild thing but a…
Sheila M. BirdApril 22, 2020
2013: Year of Statistics, hospitals, cows, and living to 100
Happy New Year. Especially (for a statistical site) because 2013 is, officially, the International Year…
Julian ChampkinJanuary 7, 2013
