The Statistics Behind Google Translate
23rd June 2015
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales Statistics are usually regarded as a numbers science. Statisticians work with numbers; that is what we are good at. It is therefore curious that one of the...
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“It was wonderful to be part of a society at a time when it was rediscovering itself”: John Pullinger looks back on his RSS Presidency and his first year as National Statistician
19th June 2015
Last summer, John Pullinger stepped down as Royal Statistical Society President to succeed Jil Matheson as the UK's National Statistican. Pullinger’s extremely impressive career path led to his...
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Reproducibility in science: uncovering truths
9th June 2015
Author: Joanna Carpenter We tend to think of science as a systematic process, steadily revealing truth about the world around us. Yet in 2005, John Ioannidis of the University of Ioannina School of...
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Beyond Basic Statistics: An interview with author Kristin H. Jarman on what every data analyst should know
11th May 2015
This month, Wiley is proud to publish Beyond Basic Statistics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know which features basic statistical concepts as a tool for thinking...
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“Empirical Bayes has been the most riveting topic for me. It still seems like magic sometimes”: An interview with Bradley Efron
1st May 2015
Bradley Efron is Max H. Stein Professor of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at Stanford University. He is best known for creating the bootstrap resampling...
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Data Science for Dummies: An interview with author Lillian Pierson
24th April 2015
Last month, Wiley was proud to publish the latest in their popular ‘Dummies’ series – Data Science for Dummies written by one of our very own writers for Statistics Views. Lillian Pierson...
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Foundations of Linear and Generalized Linear Models: An interview with author Alan Agresti
13th March 2015
This month, Wiley is proud to publish the latest book by best-selling author, Professor Alan Agresti. Foundations of Linear and Generalized Linear Models is a clear and comprehensive guide to...
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The single most cited biostatistics book in print: Co-author David W. Hosmer on the success of Applied Logistic Regression
12th February 2015
David W. Hosmer is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts as well as Professor of Statistics at the University of Vermont. He is the co-author of...
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Promoting statistical literacy around the world: An interview with ISLP Director Reija Helenius
28th January 2015
The International Statistical Literacy Project (ISLP) is a project initiated by the International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), which is the education section of the International...
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Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining – An interview with co-author Simon Munzert
15th December 2014
This month, Wiley are proud to publish Automated Data Collection with R: A Practical Guide to Web Scraping and Text Mining by Simon Munzert, Christian Rubba, Peter Meissner and Dominic Nyhuis. The...
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