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The Probabilistic Method: An interview with co-author Joel Spencer on the bestselling title
24th November 2016
Earlier this year, Wiley was proud to publish the fourth edition of The Probabilistic Method by Noga Alon, Baumritter Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Tel Aviv University and...
Read MoreA teacher who aided the world: How Deming introduced statistical quality control
10th November 2016
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales The last few years have been remarkable for statistics. The growing interest in the field brought by the current developments in governments and businesses,...
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The dangers that statistics reveal behind pseudo random stock markets
5th October 2016
Author: Dr John Fry The United Kingdom is a nation of gamblers. It is thought that nearly half of all the adults in the United Kingdom gamble at least once a month. Further, even excluding...
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Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Business: An interview with co-author Bharat Kolluri
26th September 2016
Last month, Wiley was proud to publish Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Business: With Applications Using Microsoft Office Excel, a well-balanced and accessible introduction to the elementary...
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Place your bets but trust your stats
22nd August 2016
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales Some months ago, in January 2016, a world record was broken in the United States, a rather profitable one in fact. With a jackpot of over 1.4 billion dollars,...
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“It is really a unique field as it opens so many possibilities”: An interview with Nicolai Meinhausen
27th June 2016
Nicolai Meinhausen is Professor of Statistics at ETH Zurich. His research interests include computational statistics, causality, high-dimensional data and machine learning. He is currently...
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How we work – the facts behind worldwide labour data
31st May 2016
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales We all need to work. Well, most of us at least, lucky those of you who don't have to. But usually, we all need to perform regular activities during our...
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“Keep things confidential. No sense in embarrassing the boss when the actual data arrives.” An interview with J. Stuart Hunter
6th April 2016
J. Stuart Hunter is recognised as one of the world's leading statisticians. Born in 1923 in Holyoke, MA, he is currently Professor Emeritus at Princeton University's School of Engineering and...
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“You need to promote a culture in which statisticians and subject matter scientists are working collaboratively hand-in-hand”: An interview with Royal Statistical Society President Peter Diggle
30th March 2016
Professor Peter Diggle is currently the President of the Royal Statistical Society, who began his term early in 2014 upon the resignation of John Pullinger who was appointed our National...
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Microeconometrics in Business Management: An interview with author Jerzy Wisniewski
2nd March 2016
Towards the end of last year, Wiley was proud to publish Microeconometrics in Business Management. This book introduces the application of microeconometric methods for modelling various aspects of...
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