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RSS Christmas Quiz 2021
7th January 2022
The Royal Statistical Society has published a brain-melting Christmas Quiz to baffle and entertain puzzle fans. You’ll need a combination of general knowledge, logic, lateral thinking, and...
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Stats + Stories Episode on The Data Economy
7th January 2022
The 6 January 2022 episode of Stats + Stories focuses on the origin, expansion, and future of the data economy with guest Timandra Harkness and guest host (and Significance editor) Brian...
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Open Access: Accelerating adaptation in the adaptive Metropolis–Hastings random walk algorithm
6th January 2022
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics and studies the...
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Open Access: Objective priors in the empirical Bayes framework
3rd January 2022
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics and introduces a nonparametric,...
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Open Access: Spatiotemporal clustering using Gaussian processes embedded in a mixture model
30th December 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from Environmetrics and describes spatiotemporal clustering. The article’s abstract...
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Open Access: Handwriting identification using random forests and score-based likelihood ratios
27th December 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from Statistical Analysis and Data Mining and examines using random forests and score-based...
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Open Access: Using fractional polynomials and restricted cubic splines to model non-proportional hazards or time-varying covariate effects in the Cox regression model
23rd December 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article is a Tutorial in Biostatistics and comes from Statistics in Medicine. The article’s...
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Layman’s abstract for Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry article on a self-exciting modeling framework for forward prices in power markets
22nd December 2021
Each week, we publish layman’s abstracts of new articles from our prestigious portfolio of journals in statistics. The aim is to highlight the latest research to a broader audience in an accessible...
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What have Significance readers been reading in 2021?
21st December 2021
Significance magazine has just revealed the most read articles published in 2021. Unsurprisingly, two of the top three stories are about coronavirus specifically, while six of the top 10 make at...
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Open Access: Interactions and computer experiments
20th December 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from the Scandinavian Journal of Statistics and examines interactions and computer...
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