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I Participate, We Decide: Decision Analysis enters Italian high school and students win
24th October 2017
Authors: Anna Ippolito and Fabrizio Ruggeri, Liceo Giulio Casiraghi, Cinisello Balsamo, and IMATI CNR, Milano, Italy Since 2015 high school students in Italy have to take part in activities...
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A home in the stars: the enduring search for exoplanets
26th September 2017
Author: Dr Leila Battison Since the earliest humans walked the Earth, we’ve turned our eyes skyward. The night’s sky has held mystery and wonder in equal measure for millennia and it’s our...
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Uncertainty, Statistical Science, and Black Swans
5th July 2017
A US Secretary of Defense in 2002 talked famously about “knowns” and “unknowns.” He used the words as both a noun and an adjective. In Science, we talk about uncertainty (a noun) that spans...
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Computer Simulations in Engineering
9th March 2017
Author: Liam Critchley Here in this article, we look at what computer simulations are, how they utilise mathematical concepts, how (and why) they are used across various engineering industries and...
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“I’m a statistical engineer”: An interview with Professor Diego Kuonen
10th January 2017
Diego Kuonen is a statistical consultant with his own successful software-vendor independent company, Statoo Consulting which he launched in 2001 and is also a professor at the University of...
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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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“It’s just serendipity that I ended up in statistics”: An interview with Trevor Hastie
1st November 2016
Trevor Hastie is one of the world's leading statisticians best known for his contributions in the area of applied statistics, including machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. He was...
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Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer – An interview with co-author Judea Pearl
24th October 2016
Earlier this year, Wiley was proud to publish Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer by Professors Judea Pearl and Madelyn Glymour of UCLA and Professor Nicholas P. Jewell of Berkeley. Many of...
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And Yet It Moves: Gravitational Waves
11th October 2016
Author and artwork: Patrick Rhodes Intro "The moment he was set at liberty, he looked up to the sky and down to the ground, and, stamping with his foot, in a contemplative mood, said, Eppur si...
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