Launch of FiveThirtyEight: An interview with Lead Writer Carl Bialik
17th March 2014
FiveThirtyEight is due to launch today, the website and brainchild of Nate Silver, Editor-in-Chief of its blog formerly at The New York Times who correctly predicted 49 out of 50 states in the...
Read More“The world of statistics has offered me a wonderful career.” Robert Groves looks back on heading the US Census Bureau
10th March 2014
Robert Groves is currently the Provost of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., as well as Gerard Campbell Professor in the University's Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He is...
Read MoreUncertainty in Risk Assessment: An interview with co-author Enrico Zio
14th February 2014
Last month, Wiley was proud to publish Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: The Representation and Treatment of Uncertainties by Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Methods by authors Terje Aven, Enrico...
Read More“Statistics provides a challenge somewhat akin to Sherlock Holmes’ task: how to find hidden truth in any data, from small to big.” An interview with Samuel S. Wilks Award winner Kanti Mardia
4th February 2014
At last year’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal, Canada, Professor Kanti V. Mardia was awarded the Samuel S. Wilks Award for ‘extensive work covering a wide span of applied and...
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Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust: The Evolution of Passing in the NFL
31st January 2014
Author and artwork: Patrick Rhodes Introduction "Three yards and a cloud of dust" - that's how Woody Hayes described his "crunching, frontal assault of muscle against muscle", the offense that...
Read More“I would like to think of myself as a scientist, who happens largely to specialise in the use of statistics”– An interview with Sir David Cox
24th January 2014
Sir David Cox is arguably one of the world’s leading living statisticians. He has made pioneering and important contributions to numerous areas of statistics and applied probability over the...
Read MoreMultiple Imputation and its Application: An interview with author James Carpenter
26th December 2013
Earlier this year, Wiley was proud to publish Multiple Imputation and its Application, a practical guide to analysing partially observed data. It is written by Professor James Carpenter,...
Read MoreIYOS: A Retrospective
20th December 2013
Author: Ronald Wasserstein, Statistics2013 Steering Committee member and American Statistical Association executive director My how time flies when you’re having fun! It seems only like...
Read MoreMentoring in biostatistics: An interview with Professor Lehana Thabane
11th December 2013
Author: Joanna Carpenter Professor Lehana Thabane is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director of the Biostatistics Unit, Centre for Evaluation of Medicine, McMaster...
Read MoreProbability and Statistics for Ecosystem Managers: An interview with author Dr. Timothy Haas
6th November 2013
This summer, Wiley was proud to publish Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Ecosystem Managers: Simulation and Resampling by Dr. Timothy Haas, Associate Professor in Business Statistics...
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