Enter our writing competition for early-career statisticians
Are you an early-career statistician with the ability to write data-driven stories in an entertaining…
Brian TarranMarch 20, 2018
Data, debt and disaster – and a fight for independence – in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is in bad shape. Its government is burdened by a debt of $70…
Don’t miss Significance at the RSS Conference in Glasgow
We’re heading to Glasgow this week for the Royal Statistical Society’s annual conference, and there…
Brian TarranSeptember 4, 2017
Trials of a statistician, continued
Just over a week ago now, on the morning of Monday 31 July, Andreas Georgiou stood up…
Brian TarranAugust 8, 2017
Don’t miss our JSM session, “Essential skills for communicating statistics”
Later this week, Significance will be heading to Baltimore, Maryland, to join the thousands of statisticians…
Brian TarranJuly 25, 2017
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
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Are you an early-career statistician with the ability to tell data-driven stories in an entertaining…
Brian TarranFebruary 20, 2017
Behind the scenes – February 2017 issue preview
Search the Internet Movie Database and you can find a list of 87 titles tagged…
Brian TarranFebruary 17, 2017
Remembering Hans Rosling
Professor Hans Rosling, a statistician and public educator who was committed to sharing the joy…
Brian TarranFebruary 8, 2017
Who said it?
The Royal Statistical Society's Christmas Quiz is highly regarded for the level of challenge it…
Jim NortonDecember 19, 2016
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
The challenges for GDP, now and in the future
When Professor Sir Charlie Bean published his review of UK economic statistics in March, he…
Diane CoyleApril 25, 2016
Is ‘you know who’ dead? Predicting the future in Game of Thrones
Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/umairadeeb/The narrative cliff-hanger is a fiendish device – ramping up drama and tension only…
Richard ValeApril 21, 2016
Introducing the new-look Significance
You’ve probably noticed that things look a little different here. To coincide with the start…
Brian TarranFebruary 16, 2016
Bacon, cancer, and the vital importance of statistical reasoning
In September 2015, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC)…
David SpiegelhalterJanuary 29, 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
The stats in sport panel at RSS 2015: the bigger picture
In the absence of huge amounts of money, gaining a competitive edge in sport requires…
Oz FlanaganSeptember 30, 2015
How to communicate the uncertainty in economic statistics
Government statistical agencies often report official economic statistics as point estimates. Buried within the documents…
Charles ManskiSeptember 22, 2015
