A story about a tiny bot
Photo by Rock'n Roll Monkey on UnsplashThe prediction of the stock market is without question…
Marco Antonio Andrade BarreraFebruary 19, 2020
What is the bootstrap?
Bradley Efron (pictured) was awarded the 2018 International Prize in Statistics for the creation of…
You can trust the polls in 2018, if you read them carefully
On the morning of 8 November 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary…
Josh Pasek and Michael TraugottSeptember 27, 2018
Cargo-cult statistics and scientific crisis
Poor practice is catching up with science,1-3 manifesting in part in the failure of results…
Philip B. Stark and Andrea SaltelliJuly 5, 2018
New statistical methods would let researchers deal with data in better, more robust ways
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24801682@N08/2978799610No matter the field, if a researcher is collecting data of any kind, at some…
Rand WilcoxMay 9, 2017
Statistical dinosaurs and other creatures
Evolution is change in the heritable traits of biological populations over successive generations. Through these…
Marco Geraci and Mario Cortina BorjaAugust 23, 2016
How Frank Wilcoxon helped statisticians walk the non-parametric path
Part of the job of a statistician is to make inferences about a population from…
Mario Cortina Borja & Julian StanderDecember 7, 2015
