SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae058
Gavin Freeguard
{"title":"The story of the R number: How an obscure epidemiological figure took over our lives. Part 4: The politics of R","authors":"Gavin Freeguard","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae055
Jesse Rhoades, Thomas Geijtenbeek
{"title":"One giant leap: Helping astronauts walk safely on the moon","authors":"Jesse Rhoades, Thomas Geijtenbeek","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae055","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Humans walk differently on the Moon, risking musculoskeletal injuries affecting the safety of all crew members. Jesse Rhoades and Thomas Geijtenbeek explain how a new approach to data analysis could reduce this risk for astronauts in NASA’s current Moon exploration programme Artemis","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141924177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae062
Anna Britten
{"title":"“Odds of finding evidence of life beyond Earth in my lifetime? I would say it’s 50% plus or minus 50%”: Interview with Shawn Dromagal-Goldman","authors":"Anna Britten","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae062","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Shawn Domagal-Goldman is an exoplanet hunter – his official title is deputy director of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center – who spends his days using data sets to hunt for life on other planets. He talks to Anna Britten about his work and the role of statistics at the biggest space organisation in the world","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141925420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae056
John W Dennis, John T Haman, James E Warner
{"title":"Out-of-this-world spacesuits: Quantifying uncertainty helps keep heroes safe","authors":"John W Dennis, John T Haman, James E Warner","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 NASA and the US Department of Defense acquire some of the world’s most complex systems. Assessing their effectiveness and reliability requires rigorous statistical planning, including uncertainty quantification (UQ). Here, John W. Dennis, John T. Haman, and James E. Warner walk us through the testing of a new spacesuit system","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae060
Hunter Glanz
{"title":"“Aw, sadistics. The most evil of math”","authors":"Hunter Glanz","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae060","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Ever had to teach introductory statistics to reluctant and terrified students? Hunter Glanz shares your pain – as well as his thoughts on giving your class the skills they need","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae057
Jana Purkiss, Freya N Clark, Emmanuele Giorgi
{"title":"Using geostatistics to fight neglected tropical diseases","authors":"Jana Purkiss, Freya N Clark, Emmanuele Giorgi","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae057","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Jana Purkiss, Freya N. Clark and Emanuele Giorgi describe a spatial solution to controlling diseases such as leprosy, dengue and rabies that affect around a billion people worldwide","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141923060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae059
Sachin Date
{"title":"Did Shakespeare influence Seinfeld?","authors":"Sachin Date","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae059","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A casual observation leads Sachin Date to a probing investigation into how leading stand-up comedians influence each other","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141923713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae067
Anna Britten
{"title":"Q&A: Dorcas Kareithi","authors":"Anna Britten","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae067","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The poetry-reading Newcastle University biostatistician is also president of the Young African Statisticians Association","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141924706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2024-08-09DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae063
V. A. Samaranayake
{"title":"Bad stats: A regular series exploring slip-ups, snafus and salutary lessons from the world of statistics: The Challenger disaster","authors":"V. A. Samaranayake","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}