SignificancePub Date : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae051
Anna Britten
{"title":"Q&A: John Bailer","authors":"Anna Britten","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Post-retirement means seeking joy for the award-winning Stats + Stories podcaster","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"43 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141270294","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 : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae043
Gavin Freeguard
{"title":"The story of the R number: How an obscure epidemiological figure took over our lives. Part 3: Media","authors":"Gavin Freeguard","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae043","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"35 33","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141270422","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 : 2024-06-03DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae042
Christophe Ley, Oliver Jack
{"title":"Slam dunk statistics","authors":"Christophe Ley, Oliver Jack","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae042","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Despite other countries catching up, the USA remains a global basketball powerhouse and is favourite to win gold in basketball at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Oliver Jack and Christophe Ley use cluster analysis to help answer some of its fans’ hottest topics of discussion","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"117 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141272228","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 : 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae026
Catey Bunce, Gill Price, Simon Day, Mona Kanaan
{"title":"Medical statisticians: Always on tap but never on top?","authors":"Catey Bunce, Gill Price, Simon Day, Mona Kanaan","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Working life for some medical statisticians can be dissatisfying, with a sense of playing second fiddle, according to research described here by Catey Bunce, Gill Price, Simon Day and Mona Kanaan on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society Medical Section","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"7 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140733161","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 : 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae021
Anna Britten
{"title":"Q&A: Adrian Barnett","authors":"Anna Britten","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The Queensland University of Technology professor is also a past president of the Statistical Society of Australia","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"56 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140733654","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 : 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae034
V. A. Samaranayake
{"title":"Bad stats: A regular series exploring slip-ups, snafus and salutary lessons from the world of statistics: The Wakefield Study and the autism debate","authors":"V. A. Samaranayake","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae034","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 A regular series exploring slip-ups, snafus and salutary lessons from the world of statistics","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"57 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140733761","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 : 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae029
Jill Layland
{"title":"Household Costs Indices: The new inflation measure","authors":"Jill Layland","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Inflation does not affect every household the same way. In addition, how it is measured can vary, sometimes giving noticeably different results. Jill Leyland describes the Household Costs Indices, a new way to measure and understand people’s experiences of inflation, now being published by the UK’s Office for National Statistics","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"53 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140733524","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 : 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae030
Jonathan Auerbach, D. Kepplinger, Nicholas Rios
{"title":"What is data science? A closer look at science’s latest priority dispute","authors":"Jonathan Auerbach, D. Kepplinger, Nicholas Rios","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae030","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Jonathan Auerbach, David Kepplinger and Nicholas Rios use two popular data science algorithms – naïve Bayes and eigencentrality – to examine the difference between data scientists, statisticians, and other occupations","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"10 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140732739","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 : 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmae028
Hayley Bennett, Tim Chivers
{"title":"Show and tell: Stats communicators share their stories","authors":"Hayley Bennett, Tim Chivers","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmae028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmae028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 One of the biggest challenges facing any statistician is communicating their work to people who don’t eat, sleep and breathe data to the extent they do. Even the most thorough courses in statistics can leave students – be they undergraduates or PhD candidates – at a loss as to how to share their knowledge effectively and persuasively, be it via a work presentation or TED talk, personal blog or magazine article, newsletter, X thread, or even just a conversation with a boss or friend.\u0000 So how do we help the non-expert get their head around complex statistics, and at the same time find our voices as messengers? In this special feature, we ask three of the best stats communicators working today to tell us what they do, and how and why they do it. Because rarely does the data speak for itself.\u0000 What happens when you combine creativity with data nous? Daniel Parris tells Hayley Bennett about his unorthodox journey into the statistics world, and why he started his must-read newsletter for numerate culture-vultures\u0000 Want to create more memorable data viz? Take your time, go for a walk and remember it’s OK to suck at the start, Alli Torban tells Hayley Bennett\u0000 As a science writer for British newspapers, author of popular books on statistical matters and twice winner of the Royal Statistical Society’s award for statistical excellence in journalism, Tom Chivers is versed in demystifying complex concepts for mainstream readers. His latest book explains Bayes’ theorem to the non-statistician.","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"12 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140733311","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}