How to solve a problem like missing data
16th June 2017
Authors: Alex Sutherland and Catherine Saunders Missing data is a challenge for statisticians, policymakers and analysts, particularly when a robust evidence base is needed. This is often caused by...
Read More“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...
Read MorePeople 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...
Read More“I love genetics because it combines biology with mathematics”: An interview with Dr Alice Whittemore
16th May 2017
Dr Alice Whittemore is Professor of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine. Her research focuses on statistical methods for...
Read MoreA Common Task Framework (CTF) for objective comparison of spatial prediction methodologies
21st April 2017
Authors: Christopher K. Wikle, Noel Cressie, Andrew Zammit-Mangion and Clint Shumack Scientists, engineers, and policy-makers are often interested in using statistical models to describe and predict...
Read More“For me, these thirty years have taught me that we statisticians have a long tradition of thinking things through”: An interview with Dr Xiao-Li Meng
6th April 2017
Dr Xiao-Li Meng is Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at University of Harvard. His research interests include statistical theory and...
Read MoreApplied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data: Models, Methods, and MATLAB – An interview with author Peter J. Costa
24th March 2017
This month Wiley is proud to publish Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data: Models, Methods, and MATLAB®, which features a practical approach to the analysis of biomedical data...
Read MoreComputer Simulations in Engineering
9th March 2017
Author: Liam Critchley Here in this article, we look at what computer simulations are, how they utilise mathematical concepts, how (and why) they are used across various engineering industries and...
Read MoreFeeding Britain after Brexit
27th February 2017
Author: Chris Smaje Various origins have been proposed for the word ‘statistics’ but they all invoke the concept of the political state. Statistics, originally, was what states did in order to...
Read MoreAir Pollution: Time to clear the air?
17th February 2017
Author: Dr Leila Battison Just how clean is the air that we breathe? At the end of last year, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) published independent...
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