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Providing data analysis for the highest chain of command: An interview with Christine Fox
2nd November 2015
At this year's Joint Statistical Meetings held in Seattle, USA, the President's Invited Address Speaker was Ms Christine Fox. Ms Fox is Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis at the John...
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“Really it was me just wanting to play with statistics and seeing what I could come up with”: An interview with Tyler Vigen
12th October 2015
Tyler Vigen is currently a student at Harvard Law School, working on his Juris Doctor degree. Within the past year or so, he has gained the attention of the statistical community for his website,...
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“Statistical control theory is an emerging area that could lead to advances in new statistical theory and ideas”: An interview with Michael Kosorok
11th September 2015
Professor Michael Kosorok is W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Professor, at the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at University of...
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“Writing code helps me to understand the development process so that I can make better judgments about it”: An interview with SAS founder John Sall
21st July 2015
Authors: Ajay Ohri and Sunakshi Bhatia John Sall is a legendary figure in statistical computing. He not only co-founded SAS Institute, the leading enterprise analytics and statistical computing...
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Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control – An interview with co-author Greta M. Ljung on the new edition of the bestseller
13th July 2015
This month, Wiley is proud to publish the fifth edition of Time Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control. Bridging classical models and modern topics, the Fifth Edition of Time Series Analysis:...
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“Statisticians are like cogs in a bigger system”: An interview with Dr Ben Goldacre
1st July 2015
Ben Goldacre is a best-selling author, broadcaster, campaigner, medical doctor and academic who specialises in unpicking the misuse of science and statistics by journalists, politicians, drug...
Read MoreThe 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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