“The ASA needs to speak up, and I hope we continue to do so”: An interview with Ron Wasserstein
28th March 2019
Ronald L. (Ron) Wasserstein is the executive director of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Wasserstein assumed the ASA’s top staff leadership post in August 2007. In this role,...
Read MoreBig Data and Differential Privacy: Analysis Strategies for Railway Track Engineering: An interview with author Nii O. Attoh-Okine
4th March 2019
Featuring a practical introduction to state-of-the-art data analysis for railway track engineering, Big Data and Differential Privacy: Analysis Strategies for Railway Track Engineering addresses...
Read MoreClimate Change: Who You Are Affects What You Believe
22nd February 2019
Author: Allison Goldstein To say climate change is front of mind these days would be putting it mildly. Hotter global temperatures are extending droughts, strengthening hurricanes, worsening...
Read More“The reason I do statistics is I’m interested in so many different things”: An interview with Peter Guttorp
30th January 2019
Peter Guttorp is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at University of Washington, Professor at the Norwegian Computing Center, and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Simon Fraser University. He obtained...
Read More“From the very beginning, the BBC has made statistics a central feature of its election night coverage:” An interview with Sir John Curtice
12th December 2018
Sir John Curtice is Senior Research Fellow at NatCen, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University, and Chief Commentator on the What UK Thinks: EU and What Scotland Thinks websites. He has...
Read MoreStatistica Neerlandica special issue on Benchmarking, Temporal Disaggregation and Reconciliation of Systems of Time Series just published: An interview with co-editor Baoline Chen
1st November 2018
Statistica Neerlandica has published a special issue on Benchmarking, Temporal Disaggregation and Reconciliation of Systems of Time Series. The special issue includes ten articles, all addressing...
Read More“Neurophysiology is a place where statistics can play a valuable role in moving the field forward:” An interview with Robert Kass
25th October 2018
Professor Robert Kass has been been on the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon since 1981. He joined the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC, run jointly by CMU...
Read MoreDid Sexism Play a Role in Serena Williams’ Loss?
10th October 2018
Author: Alison Goldstein By now, the entirety of the tennis world knows what took place on Saturday, September 8, 2018, in the final round of the women’s singles at the 2018 US Open. For everyone...
Read More“Statistics is a really important part of almost anybody making a good decision or improving their understanding:” An interview with Adrian Bowman
4th October 2018
Adrian Bowman is a Professor of Statistics and Head of the School of Mathematics & Statistics in the University of Glasgow. His research interests include environmental modelling and the...
Read MoreWhere Sensors and Data Fusion Methods Meet
14th September 2018
Author: Liam Critchley In these days of big data, data originates in multiple sources. To turn this data into useful information it needs to be integrated. Data fusion, or data integration, is a...
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