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“Astrostatistics is a field full of opportunities right now”: An interview with Roberto Trotta
15th December 2017
Dr Roberto Trotta is a theoretical cosmologist in the Astrophysics Group of Imperial College London, where he is a Reader in Astrophysics (equivalent to Associate Professor in the US), and the...
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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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“I love genetics because it combines biology with mathematics”: An interview with Dr Alice Whittemore
16th May 2017
Dr Alice Whittemore is Professor of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine. Her research focuses on statistical methods for...
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Feeding Britain after Brexit
27th February 2017
Author: Chris Smaje Various origins have been proposed for the word ‘statistics’ but they all invoke the concept of the political state. Statistics, originally, was what states did in order to...
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Air Pollution: Time to clear the air?
17th February 2017
Author: Dr Leila Battison Just how clean is the air that we breathe? At the end of last year, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) published independent...
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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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Response Surface Methodology: Process and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments – An interview with co-author C. Anderson-Cook
22nd July 2016
Featuring a substantial revision, Wiley was proud to publish earlier this year the fourth edition of Response Surface Methodology: Process and Product Optimization Using Designed...
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Modelling the commons
18th May 2016
Author: Chris Smaje In 2009, political scientist Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012) won the Nobel Prize for Economics for her analysis of common pool resources (CPRs). A pithy summation of this work has...
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Endangered Species: A Bleak Outlook or the Road to Protection?
26th April 2016
Author: Dr Leila Battison Over the last few decades, it has become clear that direct human actions and anthropogenic climate change pose a major threat to the Earth’s biodiversity. The widespread...
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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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