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The single most cited biostatistics book in print: Co-author David W. Hosmer on the success of Applied Logistic Regression
12th February 2015
David W. Hosmer is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts as well as Professor of Statistics at the University of Vermont. He is the co-author of...
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Wiley launches Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online
5th November 2014
Wiley is proud to publish Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online, a comprehensive online reference resource which covers the fundamentals and applications of statistics in all fields where it...
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“Statistics can detect patterns in the data that case-by-case medical review may miss.” An interview with SCT President Daniel Sargent
5th August 2014
Dr Daniel Sargent is the President of the Society of Clinical Trials and the primary consulting statistician for the Gastrointestinal Cancer Program of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, a non-profit...
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Willful Ignorance: The Mismeasure of Uncertainty – An interview with author Herbert I. Weisberg
16th July 2014
This month Wiley is proud to publish Willful Ignorance: The Mismeasure of Uncertainty by Herbert I. Weisberg. This book provides an original account of willful ignorance and how this principle...
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Statistics for Exercise Science and Health: An interview with author J.P. Verma
27th June 2014
This month Wiley are proud to publish Statistics for Exercise Science and Health with Microsoft Excel, which introduces the use of statistics to solve a variety of problems in exercise science and...
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“The statistician was viewed only as a technical consultant. This is neither intellectually stimulating nor a proper representation of what we’re capable of”: Interview with Professor Peter Bickel
20th June 2014
Peter Bickel is an American statistician and Emeritus Professor of Statistics in Berkeley. He is past President of the Bernoulli Society and of the Institute of Mathematical...
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“Statistics provides a challenge somewhat akin to Sherlock Holmes’ task: how to find hidden truth in any data, from small to big.” An interview with Samuel S. Wilks Award winner Kanti Mardia
4th February 2014
At last year’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal, Canada, Professor Kanti V. Mardia was awarded the Samuel S. Wilks Award for ‘extensive work covering a wide span of applied and...
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“I would like to think of myself as a scientist, who happens largely to specialise in the use of statistics”– An interview with Sir David Cox
24th January 2014
Sir David Cox is arguably one of the world’s leading living statisticians. He has made pioneering and important contributions to numerous areas of statistics and applied probability over the...
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Multiple Imputation and its Application: An interview with author James Carpenter
26th December 2013
Earlier this year, Wiley was proud to publish Multiple Imputation and its Application, a practical guide to analysing partially observed data. It is written by Professor James Carpenter,...
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Mentoring in biostatistics: An interview with Professor Lehana Thabane
11th December 2013
Author: Joanna Carpenter Professor Lehana Thabane is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director of the Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Evaluation of Medicine, McMaster...
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