The Phillips Curve revisited
In my first article, A short overview of the Phillips Curve, I outlined the complicated…
Michael MernaghSeptember 19, 2013
A short overview of the Phillips Curve
In modern economics, central banks around the world have become engrossed in closely monitoring the…
Bernoulli and the foundations of statistics: can you correct a 300-year-old error?
Ars Conjectandi is not a book that non-statisticians will have heard of, nor one that…
Julian ChampkinJune 10, 2013
George Box, (1919-2013): a wit, a kind man and a statistician
‘Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful’. That quotation comes from George Box,…
Julian ChampkinApril 4, 2013
Nobel Prize in Economics Laureates’ achievements estimated from their fame
In a recent article1, Anouk Claes and Marc de Ceuster reported the achievements of Nobel…
Mikhail SimkinApril 3, 2013
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 3
The subject of today's article is impact risk and concludes the three-part series looking at…
Jordi PratsMarch 28, 2013
Fireballs falling to Earth: Part 2
In the first part of this article we saw that meteorites fall to Earth at…
Jordi PratsMarch 26, 2013
Can you name a female statistician?
We read about statistics every day, be it the predicted winner of a football league,…
Linda WijlaarsMarch 5, 2013
Fuel prices, the UK energy gap and the consequences of ignoring information
The chance of large power cuts – those that hit more than a million homes…
Julian ChampkinFebruary 21, 2013
Income inequality in Ireland from 1922 to 2009
I read and watched with interest the Beveridge Lecture given by Professor Danny Dorling at…
Michael MernaghFebruary 20, 2013
150 years underground: Tube celebrates its sesquicentenary
Queen Victoria was on the throne, Abraham Lincoln was President of the United States of…
Abdel KhairounJanuary 10, 2013
Odd Statistical Snippet of the week: Voltaire and the statistician who won the lottery and proved that the earth is not round
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
The historical price of petrol – how bad do we have it?
Ministers this week debated whether the government should scrap a planned increase in fuel duty,…
Claire PackhamNovember 22, 2011
