Tim Hortons changed Roll up the Rim to include a digital element. A statistician correctly predicted that playing on the last day of the contest would dramatically increase the odds of winning.
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We’d all love to know more about our neighbours – from COVID-19 data, census data and other official data sources – but we shouldn’t.
Researchers and public health officials still don’t know how widespread nor how deadly the coronavirus really is. Random testing is a way to quickly and easily learn this important information.
A lot of numbers are being tossed around about COVID-19 and what to expect in the future. They’re being used to make critical public health decisions, but they aren’t as simple as they appear.
Struggling to tell your daily infections from your cumulative counts, or a linear from a log scale? Here are a few pointers to help you master the deluge of data about the COVID-19 pandemic.
We need to update models on death rates or introduce truly random testing to understand the true impact of the coronavirus.
Countries have been trying to count their populations since the Han dynasty in China.
The Tim Hortons coffee chain has made some changes to its iconic Roll up the Rim contest, including the addition of “digital rolls.” A statistician explains how this changes the odds of winning.
A reduction in OSHA inspectors may lead to a reduction in workplace safety.
Harvey Weinstein’s conviction isn’t the norm for perpetrators of sexual violence.
Scrambling it is much easier than solving it. But it still involves some fascinating questions, such as the number of random moves needed to consider the cube truly messed up.
Wages, starlight and polls can all be interpreted using statistics. While probabilities, medians and noise can be challenging, a simple dice can provide insights into statistics.
How likely is it that everyone in a family Kris Kringle will draw their own partner? It took a roomful of mathematicians to find out.
You’re just as likely to be a victim of a mass shooting as you are to be struck by lightning. So why do nearly 50% of Americans say they’re afraid of being caught in the crossfire?
John Carlisle’s method for spotting potentially fraudulent figures has already been adopted by two top medical journals.
When asked to identify the most dangerous day of the year, we realised this research hadn’t been done.
A little bit of statistics can explain the great mystery of why only girls are being born in Miejsce Odrzanskie.
South Africa’s data collection is constantly improving. That’s especially true when it comes to metrics that weren’t collected or were distorted for political purposes during apartheid.
When bad weather hits, there’s a complex formula organisers turn to to make lost game time fair.
Despite what the statistics suggest, many teenage parents say having a baby has transformed their lives.
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Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Professor of Business and Sports Analytics, University of Leeds
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Statistics and Interim Dean, College of Science, Virginia Tech
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Professor of Statistics, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, POLIS@ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Bioinformatics, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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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
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Biostatistician, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
