Evidence shows that in economies like that of Ghana, small firms do fine, but it’s the large firms that seem to suffer constraints on their growth in numbers.
By linking censuses through time or by combining other information with the census, many more important policy questions can be answered than if we used one dataset alone.
If you’re looking to win your colleagues’ and friends’ respect in a footy tipping competition you can do a whole lot worse than simply tuning out of the countless hours of TV and radio analysis.
All sides in the debate on gun control in the United States are quick to point to numbers they say back their arguments. But are they playing fair with those figures?
When a cricket match is cut short there’s a way to work out how many runs are needed in any reduced over game. That’s okay for the long form game but it doesn’t work for the shorter matches.
Politicians all too often use monthly jobs numbers to infer that the other mob is doing a bad job or that they are doing a great job at managing the economy. But that’s a flawed use of the data.
The gerrymandered district has been part of the US political landscape for two centuries. Impartial math suggests several methods for drawing fair, competitive congressional districts.
Professor, Future Fellow and Head of Statistics at UNSW, and a Deputy Director of the Australian Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS), UNSW Sydney