Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments. A statistician is someone who is particularly well-versed in the ways of thinking necessary to successfully apply statistical analysis. Such people often gain experience through working in any of a wide number of fields.
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Tipping point? Humanity's stuff now weighs more than all living things
Our deficiencies have always driven us, even among our distant ancestors, back in the last Ice Age. Having neither the speed ...
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How Paris is tackling inequalities in its transport sector
The issue of inclusivity in mobility is pressing on two sides. On the service side, systems are largely designed following ...
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5 things self-proclaimed COVID-19 'experts' get wrong about statistics
If we don’t analyze statistics for a living, it’s easy to be taken in by misinformation about COVID-19 statistics on ...
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Apple launches the 16-inch MacBook Pro and, yes, it has a 'new' keyboard
Apple has launched its new MacBook: the 16-inch Pro. This has a range of updates, but the most interesting is the company ...
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Why this Polish village hasn’t seen a boy born in 10 years
The tiny Polish village of Miejsce Odrzanskie has become the unlikely source of international media attention over the past ...
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Recycling the world’s plastic garbage could buy you the NFL, Apple and Microsoft
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. On ...
