http://www.statisticsviews.com The latest content from StatisticsViews. http://www.statisticsviews.com http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4757281/Statistics-plays-a-central-role-in-how-we-deal-with-crises-and-political-events-.html Nicholas P. Jewell is Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was...]]> 2013-05-17T13:53:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4730991/Hierarchical-Spatio-Temporal-Models-and-Survey-Research.html Spatio-temporal statistical modeling has seen tremendous growth as a subdiscipline in recent years. The associated...]]> 2013-05-08T10:31:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4700941/The-Use-of-Population-Forecasting-and-Cluster-Analysis-in-Water-Utility-Master-P.html When Dr. Prasad Chittaluru was a young engineer carrying out water system modeling and design work, he looked around his...]]> 2013-04-30T09:51:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4633411/How-biostatistics-is-of-rapidly-growing-importance-in-Japan.html Biostatistics is in good health in Japan, with increasing numbers of Masters-level courses and students, greater...]]> 2013-04-25T09:09:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4627361/George-Box-1919-2013.html George Edward Pelham (G.E.P.) Box, “George”, or “Pel” (for those very close to him), passed away on Thursday, March 28,...]]> 2013-04-23T09:20:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4617261/Does-sample-size-matter.html In the field of social statistics one gets used to working with social surveys of a sample size between 1,000 and 2,000...]]> 2013-04-19T09:43:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4597791/Capturing-the-true-spirit-of-statistics-Paul-Cheung-looks-back-on-his-Directorsh.html Professor Paul Cheung served as Director of the United Nations Statistics Division for nine years before leaving at the...]]> 2013-04-15T14:02:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4582421/What-Class-Are-You.html You should be wary of on-line calculators that allow you to type in your political preferences and then tell you which...]]> 2013-04-11T09:15:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4566481/Model-Building-in-Mathematical-Programming-published-in-fifth-edition.html A fifth edition of the widely read Model Building in Mathematical Programming has just been published. The first edition...]]> 2013-04-04T09:51:00Z http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/feature/4542861/From-the-Model-of-Reality-to-the-Reality-of-the-Model.html What do we mean when we say that we’ve constructed a model? In the social sciences, to ‘construct a model’ usually means...]]> 2013-03-31T08:30:00Z