Why 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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Reproducibility: An interview with co-author Harald Atmanspacher
26th October 2016
Over the summer, Wiley was proud to publish Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects which presents state-of-the-art approaches to reproducibility, the gold standard of sound...
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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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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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Is Pokémon Go a success due to statistics?
16th September 2016
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales It’s a quiet night in New York, at least as quiet as a night can be in the largest city of the United States. It’s the middle of July; a benign weather...
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“I like the Bayesian approach because I find it natural and it has this kind of internal coherence that makes it very appealing”: An interview with Judith Rousseau
30th August 2016
Judith Rousseau is a Professor of Statistics at CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine. Her research interests focus on Bayesian statistics and the interraction between Bayesian and frequentist...
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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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“We engage and reach out. We make partnerships”: An interview with ASA Past President David Morganstein
1st August 2016
David Morganstein is currently the Vice-President and Director of Westat's statistical unit, where he has worked for more than 35 years. Morganstein directs a unit of 65 statisticians. He...
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