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A Common Task Framework (CTF) for objective comparison of spatial prediction methodologies
21st April 2017
Authors: Christopher K. Wikle, Noel Cressie, Andrew Zammit-Mangion and Clint Shumack Scientists, engineers, and policy-makers are often interested in using statistical models to describe and predict...
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“For me, these thirty years have taught me that we statisticians have a long tradition of thinking things through”: An interview with Dr Xiao-Li Meng
6th April 2017
Dr Xiao-Li Meng is Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at University of Harvard. His research interests include statistical theory and...
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Pharmaceutical Statistics releases special issue on estimands
17th March 2017
Pharmaceutical Statistics has just published a special issue on estimands. Editor Gerd Rosenkranz writes that 'estimands offer the opportunity to define the effect of interest more clearly than in...
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The statistics behind your Amazon recommendations
14th February 2017
Author: Carlos Grajales The air is filled with love again. We are at that lovely part of the year, the one and only Valentine’s season. No one can deny the atmosphere is already filling with the...
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“The rise of data science has forced us to consider our relationship with computer science:” An interview with Michael Jordan
26th January 2017
Michael Jordan is Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor at the University of California-Berkeley where his time is split between the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 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 MoreWhy do polls keep failing everywhere?
16th November 2016
Polls have failed on us again. Once upon a time, we could rely on the latest published numbers to understand how an election result or a referendum’s could affect our lives. Those days seem to be...
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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