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Statistics have many real-world applications — including what’s the best time to play Tim Hortons’ Roll up to Win contest. A stats prof explains how he found the precise time with the best odds.
Nearly four decades after President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week, math readiness and enrollment in college math programs continue to decline.
I crunched the numbers, and they suggest the Robodebt algorithm’s error rate was on the order of 80%.
We will not eradicate the gender pay gap using bad statistics. Here’s what we need to do instead.
Despite being 25 years old, the Dixon-Coles model is still the gold standard of football prediction
From factors like the number of extra games to the time non-competing players go on break, having the World Cup in the middle of the domestic season could increase injuries.
There were deaths from COVID and deaths with COVID – but other deaths are also likely linked to the virus’s impact on our health and our medical care.
The oldest person in the world, Kane Tanaka of Japan, died in April 2022 at 119 years. The record of Jeanne Calment of France, who died at 122, has stood for almost 25 years. Will it be beaten?
People don’t randomly select who they have children with. And that means an underlying assumption in research that tries to link particular genes to certain diseases or traits is wrong.
Global estimates of modern-day slavery by the United Nations reveal improving methods for calculating the data.
Amid the global threats posed by climate change, spiralling energy costs, insecure employment and widening inequality, the need to rethink our notion of progress is now an urgent priority.
Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.
Mathematical model suggests information processing lies at the heart of decision making.
A study shows that a select group of NBA players really do go on hot streaks by making more shots in a row than statistics suggest they should.
Preclinical studies are an important part of biomedical research, often guiding future trials in humans. Failure to replicate research results suggests a need to increase the quality of studies.
Whether you want to win with as few guesses as possible, or you just want to figure out the right word before running out of turns, a scholar offers some tips.
The lack of large numbers of fossils makes it hard to study sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs. But a new statistical approach offers insight into this question and others across science.
Why haven’t people gotten upset about how our social distancing signs are fostering innumeracy?
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Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St Louis
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Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor of Business and Sports Analytics, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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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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Geoff Cumming is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
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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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Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
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Biostatistician, The University of Melbourne
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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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Laureate Professor of Mathematics, University of Newcastle
