“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,...
Read MoreI 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...
Read MoreText 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...
Read MoreIntegratedJM – 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...
Read MoreA home in the stars: the enduring search for exoplanets
26th September 2017
Author: Dr Leila Battison Since the earliest humans walked the Earth, we’ve turned our eyes skyward. The night’s sky has held mystery and wonder in equal measure for millennia and it’s our...
Read MoreHigh Frequency Trading and Flash Crashes: How can mankind respond to the rise of the machines?
4th September 2017
Author: Dr John Fry High Frequency Trading (HFT) incorporates a range of high speed trading strategies termed “Flash Trading” in recognition of the sheer speeds involved. At times these can be...
Read MoreCan we quantify the level of over-confidence in opinion polls?
8th August 2017
Author: Dr John Fry The story of scientific opinion polling is a litany of failed forecasts. From a United Kingdom perspective, recent episodes includes the recent 2017 general election and, perhaps...
Read MoreCausality 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...
Read MoreUncertainty, 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...
Read More“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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