If you haven’t played Guess The Correlation yet, you definitely should – but please read…
Brian TarranFebruary 9, 2016
Statistics play an important role in improving human lives, not least through helping to identify…
Maitha Al Junaibi and Karl Royce AshworthDecember 1, 2015
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…
Jonathan Borwein & Michael RoseSeptember 24, 2014
Whenever I watch movies these days I tend to notice the little mathematical and statistical…
Michael A. LewisApril 7, 2014
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…
Priyantha WijayatungaSeptember 9, 2013
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
