Florence Nightingale in bed at South Street in 1906, aged 86. Photographed by Elizabeth Bosanquet.…
Brian TarranMarch 23, 2020
Andreas Georgiou, Greece’s former national statistician, once again faces trial on charges of inflating the…
Brian TarranMay 16, 2018
The Royal Statistical Society's Christmas Quiz is highly regarded for the level of challenge it…
Jim NortonDecember 19, 2016
Alec Campbell of Bellevue College writes: I’ve read about the birthday problem, and how you…
Brian TarranNovember 28, 2016
Hundreds of people have been killed since the start of the year as a result…
Brian TarranAugust 25, 2016
For our latest 'Ask a statistician' column, the Year 6 children of Milwards Primary School…
Brian TarranMay 4, 2016
Henry Cole, a 17-year-old student, asks: "Almost every day on the news there is a…
Brian TarranOctober 26, 2015
In the absence of huge amounts of money, gaining a competitive edge in sport requires…
Oz FlanaganSeptember 30, 2015
Statisticians swear by R. The programming language is described by Tal Galili of the R-Statistics…
Brian TarranJuly 2, 2015
‘Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful’. That quotation comes from George Box,…
Julian ChampkinApril 4, 2013
I was listening with half an ear (as one does) to Melvyn Bragg’s academic-intellectual-historical-philosophical-scientific educate-us-all-in-things-that-every-civilised-person-ought-to-know-but-probably-doesn’t…
Julian ChampkinMay 4, 2012
