The Statistics Dictionary Archives - Significance magazine

If you haven’t played Guess The Correlation yet, you definitely should – but please read…

Brian TarranFebruary 9, 2016

In September 2015, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC)…

Statistics play an important role in improving human lives, not least through helping to identify…

I have a mild addiction to playing backgammon on my smartphone. I have tried several…

David KasdanApril 14, 2015

Creative applications of statistics abound in virtually every discipline. But coming up with tangible examples…

Eric WikaDecember 15, 2014

Here’s an historical tidbit you may not be aware of. Between the years 1860 and…

Whenever I watch movies these days I tend to notice the little mathematical and statistical…

An embarrassing personal experience enforced on me the lesson that research is a human enterprise…

David KasdanDecember 12, 2013

A former statistics lecturer of mine once said in a lecture I attended that the…

Mark KelsonNovember 22, 2013

Mark Twain with characteristic panache said ‘…I am dead to adverbs, they cannot excite me’.…

Mark KelsonOctober 22, 2013

Clinical trials are often conducted to test new drugs, especially drugs for treating cancer. The…

Terry MillsOctober 11, 2013

Though the word correlation means usually how two quantities vary together, perhaps it may be…

Lately Jennifer Lawrence seems to have a knack for appearing in movies where mathematics is…

Michael A. LewisFebruary 12, 2013

Analytics projects often present us with situations in which common sense tells us one thing,…

SteveSeptember 25, 2012

Publishing a book is almost always a gamble, since it is very difficult to predict…

Jordi PratsAugust 10, 2011