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“Our job is to provide tools and the mapping that can bring statistics to life”: An interview with former OS Director Vanessa Lawrence
6th May 2014
Last month Dr Vanessa Lawrence stepped down as the Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, Great Britain’s national mapping authority. She has served the organisation for 14...
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“My English teacher thought he could get me into RADA but it worked out that I became a statistician”: An interview with Sir Adrian Smith
16th April 2014
Sir Adrian Smith is a world-renowned British statistician. He studied mathematics at Selwyn College, Cambridge and statistics at University College London. He is the former Head of the Department...
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Launch of FiveThirtyEight: An interview with Lead Writer Carl Bialik
17th March 2014
FiveThirtyEight is due to launch today, the website and brainchild of Nate Silver, Editor-in-Chief of its blog formerly at The New York Times who correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states in the...
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“The world of statistics has offered me a wonderful career.” Robert Groves looks back on heading the US Census Bureau
10th March 2014
Robert Groves is currently the Provost of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as well as Gerard Campbell Professor in the University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He is...
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“I would like to think of myself as a scientist, who happens largely to specialise in the use of statistics”– An interview with Sir David Cox
24th January 2014
Sir David Cox is arguably one of the world’s leading living statisticians. He has made pioneering and important contributions to numerous areas of statistics and applied probability over the...
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Multiple Imputation and its Application: An interview with author James Carpenter
26th December 2013
Earlier this year, Wiley was proud to publish Multiple Imputation and its Application, a practical guide to analysing partially observed data. It is written by Professor James Carpenter,...
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IYOS: A Retrospective
20th December 2013
Author: Ronald Wasserstein, Statistics2013 Steering Committee member and American Statistical Association executive director My how time flies when you’re having fun! It seems only like...
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Award-winning Wiley author takes on statistical role at NASA
12th December 2013
Award-winning Wiley author Noel Cressie has been appointed from 2013 to 2015 as a JPL Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, NASA). Since 2011, Professor Cressie has...
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“One of the biggest challenges the statistical community faces is defining our role within the area known as data science.” An interview with ASA President Marie Davidian
15th October 2013
Marie Davidian is currently the President of the American Statistical Association. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Department of Statistics at the University of North Carolina at...
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“This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance you have to shape a field that is begging to be reshaped after a century of neglect. Don’t miss it.” An interview with Judea Pearl
9th October 2013
Judea Pearl is currently Professor of Computer Science and Statistics and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA where he joined in 1970. He achieved a B.S. degree in...
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