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Weighting: The statistical element essential in polling
22nd November 2017
Author: Carlos Grajales A year ago this month, Donald Trump became the 45th President of the United States of America. As a statistician, I am currently reviewing five poll results which date from...
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“I am interested in promoting diversity in the Statistics, Data Science and R communities”: An interview with Isabella Gollini
14th November 2017
Isabella Gollini is Assistant Professor of Statistics at University College Dublin where she joined in September of this year, having studied for her PhD there. Prior to her appointment at Dublin,...
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I Participate, We Decide: Decision Analysis enters Italian high school and students win
24th October 2017
Authors: Anna Ippolito and Fabrizio Ruggeri, Liceo Giulio Casiraghi, Cinisello Balsamo, and IMATI CNR, Milano, Italy Since 2015 high school students in Italy have to take part in activities...
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Text Mining in Practice with R: An interview with author Ted Kwartler
13th October 2017
This summer, Wiley was proud to publish Text Mining in Practice with R, a reliable, cost-effective approach to extracting priceless business information from all sources of text. Excavating...
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IntegratedJM – an R package to Jointly Model Gene-Expression and Bioassay Data, Taking Care of the Fingerprint Feature Effect
3rd October 2017
Author: Rudradev Sengupta Modern drug discovery processes involve multiple sources of high-dimensional data. This imposes the challenge of data integration. For example, in order to...
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Causality in a Social World: An interview with author Guanglei Hong
31st July 2017
Next month, Wiley is proud to publish Causality in a Social World: Moderation, Mediation and Spill-over, which introduces innovative new statistical research and strategies for investigating...
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Uncertainty, Statistical Science, and Black Swans
5th July 2017
A US Secretary of Defense in 2002 talked famously about “knowns” and “unknowns.” He used the words as both a noun and an adjective. In Science, we talk about uncertainty (a noun) that spans...
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“Defining the role of statistics and placing it in the new areas is one important challenge”: An interview with Professor Gerda Claeskens
26th June 2017
Gerda Claeskens is Professor of Statistics at KU Leuven where she has been teaching since 2004. She gained her M.S. in Biostatistics and PhD in Mathematics at Limburgs Universitair Centrum. She has...
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“We decided it was better to collaborate rather than to compete:” An interview with Dr Geert Molenberghs
30th May 2017
Dr Geert Molenberghs is Professor of Biostatistics at Universiteit Hasselt and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He has co-authored many books, including Missing Data in Clinical...
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People Analytics: How statistics is taking over HR departments across the world
24th May 2017
Author: Carlos Grajales More than half a dozen people, including statisticians, mathematicians and engineers are sitting together in a table, discussing strategies to tackle their new analytics...
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