Photo by Evie S. on UnsplashLet me tell you something: 2020 is a magic year.…
Alan JacksonJanuary 16, 2020
With the Six Nations rugby championship kicking off this weekend, we have two years of…
Ray StefaniJanuary 28, 2019
Photo by Gaelle Marcel on UnsplashLetisha Smith – winner of the 2018 Award for Statistical…
Letisha SmithJanuary 14, 2019
If you are thinking of entering our annual writing competition for early-career statisticians, we recommend…
Brian TarranJanuary 10, 2019
Harmful alcohol consumption is known to cause several diseases and many deaths. A study published…
Kari PoikolainenNovember 19, 2018
Monday 15 October had a lot of people eagerly awaiting the postman to deliver the…
Anthony HatswellOctober 29, 2018
Back in the 1990s, British miners were fighting for compensation for diseases linked to coal…
Jonny JacobsenOctober 8, 2018
On 4 September 2017, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – better known as “William…
Shomoita Alam and James HanleyFebruary 22, 2018
Rick Wicklin, over at The DO Loop blog, published an interesting graph showing the ages of…
Mario Cortina Borja & Julian StanderJanuary 24, 2018
Later this week, Significance will be heading to Baltimore, Maryland, to join the thousands of statisticians…
Brian TarranJuly 25, 2017
The UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) recently published an analysis of live births from…
Mario Cortina Borja and Peter MartinMarch 3, 2017
December 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist…
Jekaterina Kremneva, Angie Wade and Mario Cortina BorjaDecember 16, 2016
Our latest 'Ask a statistician' question received not one but two different solutions. We published…
Brian TarranDecember 14, 2016
A couple of years ago, I wrote an article in which I examined the evidence…
Nathan CunninghamNovember 28, 2016
Team GB had a phenomenal Olympics in Rio and, in topping its London 2012 medal…
Ray StefaniSeptember 21, 2016
The late Chris Brasher, founder of the London Marathon, described the event as the ‘Suburban…
Anthony HatswellOctober 6, 2015
It's been another year of strong submissions for the Young Statisticians Writing Competition - our…
Brian TarranJuly 14, 2015
There has been no real change in the proportion of children living in poverty in…
Jonathan BradshawJuly 1, 2015
