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Although both the law and statistical theory have foundations that rest on formal rules and…
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Professor Dame Anne Glover has spent her entire career generating scientific knowledge; knowledge that has,…
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In the second instalment of our new 'Ask A Statistician' column, Peter McIntyre, a pharmaceutical…
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Part of the job of a statistician is to make inferences about a population from…
Mario Cortina Borja & Julian StanderDecember 7, 2015
A heatwave over India that started on May 21 and has produced India’s highest recorded…
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One of the most memorable errors in statistical analysis is a scene from The Empire…
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