“The use of real datasets and exploring questions of wide appeal is what gets students excited to want to learn more:” An interview with Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
8th March 2018
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Director of Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University as well as a Data Scientist and...
Read More“I think that statistics is the ultimate transferable skill”: An interview with Christl Donnelly CBE
28th February 2018
Christl Donnelly is a statistician and epidemiologist studying the spread and control of infectious diseases, with a particular interest in outbreaks. She studied mathematics as an undergraduate at...
Read MoreThe Profession of Modeling and Simulation: An interview with co-editor Andreas Tolk
20th February 2018
Towards the end of last year, Wiley was proud to publish The Profession of Modeling and Simulation: Discipline, Ethics, Education, Vocation, Societies, and Economicsby co-editors Andreas...
Read MoreAdvanced Analysis of Variance: An interview with author Chihiro Hirotsu
13th February 2018
Towards the end of last year, Wiley was proud to publish Advanced Analysis of Variance, which introduces a revolutionary new model for the statistical analysis of experimental data. In this...
Read MoreLeaving somewhere extraordinary
6th February 2018
Author: Dr Paula McLeod ex-St Helena Government, Now: Dept for International Development Twelve months ago our ship sailed, in a quite literal sense. It was carrying my family and all of our...
Read MoreMarkov Chains: From Theory to Implementation and Experimentation: An interview with author Paul Gagniuc
18th January 2018
Towards the end of last year, Wiley was proud to publish Markov Chains: From Theory to Implementation and Experimentation, a fascinating and instructive guide to Markov chains for experienced users...
Read MoreBehind the scenes at the Alan Turing Institute
10th January 2018
Author: Liam Critchley Whether or not you are new to statistics (and data science in general), you may have heard about the Alan Turing Institute. Herein this article, we look at what the...
Read More“Astrostatistics is a field full of opportunities right now”: An interview with Roberto Trotta
15th December 2017
Dr Roberto Trotta is a theoretical cosmologist in the Astrophysics Group of Imperial College London, where he is a Reader in Astrophysics (equivalent to Associate Professor in the US), and the...
Read MoreA Panorama of Statistics: An interview with authors Eric Sowey and Peter Petocz
8th December 2017
Earlier this year, Wiley was proud to publish A Panorama of Statistics: Perspectives, Puzzles and Paradoxes in Statistics, which offers a stimulating panoramic tour – quite different from a...
Read MoreWeighting: 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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