“You need to promote a culture in which statisticians and subject matter scientists are working collaboratively hand-in-hand”: An interview with Royal Statistical Society President Peter Diggle
30th March 2016
Professor Peter Diggle is currently the President of the Royal Statistical Society, who began his term early in 2014 upon the resignation of John Pullinger who was appointed our National...
Read MoreHow hackers are making use of statistics to steal your password
22nd March 2016
Author: Carlos Alberto Gómez Grajales I’m going to tell you a secret. For my first e-mail account, my password was the name of one of the lesser known released albums from the Seattle band...
Read More“I love statistics and like that it permits so much freedom”: An interview with Susan Murphy
16th March 2016
Susan Murphy is the H.E. Robbins Distinguished University Professor of Statistics & Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. She obtained her B.S. in Mathematics from the...
Read More“One of the most enjoyable aspects about being a statistician is that data comes from different fields and each one poses a novel scenario”: An interview with Ingram Olkin
7th March 2016
Ingram Olkin is a professor emeritus and chair of statistics and education at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is best known for developing statistical analysis...
Read MoreMicroeconometrics in Business Management: An interview with author Jerzy Wisniewski
2nd March 2016
Towards the end of last year, Wiley was proud to publish Microeconometrics in Business Management. This book introduces the application of microeconometric methods for modelling various aspects of...
Read More“What young statisticians should resist is the hypocrisy of stealth advocacy:” An interview with Andrea Saltelli
22nd February 2016
Andrea Saltelli has worked on physical chemistry, environmental sciences, applied statistics, impact assessment and science for policy. His main disciplinary focus is on sensitivity analysis of model...
Read MoreMultivariate Density Estimation: Author David Scott on the second edition of his bestseller
15th February 2016
David Scott's bestseller Multivariate Density Estimation: Theory, Practice, and Visualization clarifies modern data analysis through nonparametric density estimation for a complete working...
Read MoreThe Digital Patient: Advancing Healthcare, Research, and Education: An interview with the authors
10th February 2016
This month, Wiley is proud to publish The Digital Patient: Advancing Healthcare, Research, and Education, which is a modern guide to computational models and constructive simulation for...
Read MoreElementary Financial Derivatives: An interview with author Jana Sacks
5th February 2016
Towards the end of last year, Wiley was proud to publish Elementary Financial Derivatives: A Guide to Training and Valuation with Applications by Jana Sacks. Written as an accessible and appealing...
Read More“I am so glad I got into statistics and have the opportunity to use computers while working on engineering problems”: An interview with William Meeker
22nd January 2016
William Q. Meeker is Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, The...
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