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Williams is on track to eclipse Court, Navratilova and Graf … but she’s not there yet.
A little mathematics reveals whether the government really did ‘play god’ with the Vietnam draft, as suggested by former deputy Prime Minister Tim Fisher.
With free-to-air, pay TV, catch-up services and video-on-demand, television is changing in Australia, and the viewership metrics are struggling to keep up.
Football games are now watched through a haze of statistics, generated by betting, fantasy football and video games.
It turns out the only insider knowledge you’ll need is a copy of last year’s standings.
When MPs can’t get to grips with basic statistics, it’s bad for democracy.
Citizens of countries that rank higher on the so-called Trust Index tend to be more generous when it comes to tipping waiters.
Statistics are valuable tools for researchers - but may not be as reliable as we think. New research suggests the widely-used P value is inappropriate.
If reports are to be believed, both the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the federal government are strongly considering moving from a five-year to a ten-year census cycle. This move has been…
The federal government’s new “Technical Advisory Forum” on weather data, announced by parliamentary environment secretary Bob Baldwin last week, will “review and provide advice on Australia’s official…
They may be the arbiters of the world’s most gentlemanly sport, but cricket umpires provided by the home team are still more likely to be biased than neutral umpires, according to a new study that analysed…
The Ebola crisis brings into sharp contrast the importance of appropriate regulation for trials of new drugs. The “gold standard” in clinical research is the randomised trial, but the reliance on one particular…
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? Understanding what’s being said in any new research can be challenging and there are…
UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH: What do we actually mean by research and how does it help inform our understanding of things? Today we look at the dangers of making a link between unrelated results. Here’s an…
Fear of developing skin cancer is one of the stronger motives for people to use sunscreen, according to new US research…
The 2014 World Cup has been celebrated for the number of exciting, high-scoring matches it’s given us. It started with four goals in the opening game as Brazil defeated Croatia 3-1. Then, who could forget…
AUSTRALIA 2025: How will science address the challenges of the future? In collaboration with Australia’s chief scientist Ian Chubb, we’re asking how each science discipline will contribute to Australia…
It’s World Cup crunch time. The group stages are over and it will be knockout games to the final from here on in. From the performances we’ve seen so far, there are numerous contenders for the title. Brazil…
Tracking technology using video or GPS chips have transformed the ability of coaches in elite team sports to monitor the physical contributions of players in games. This type of data is usually highly…
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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, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University
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Professor of Bioinformatics, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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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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