Stuart Coles

One way of trying to improve sports models is to adapt them to include extra information. In football, for example, rather than just using goals...

Smartodds loves Statistics would like to remind you that the clocks go back an hour this weekend. You probably heard that the EU is planning to end...

Difficult to pick a favourite out of this lot:  But while simulation is a bit problematic - though immensely entertaining - in football and other...

  In an earlier post you may have discovered that 69 was the Royal Statistical Society's  International Statistic of the Year for 2017. Unless...

  In an earlier post I gave two examples of Simpson's paradox. The first example concerned the success rate of two different procedures for the...

A while back, when I was touting the idea of Smartodds loves Statistics to the Smartodds management, I also asked for ideas for possible posts. Nity...

The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is the UK's main organised body of statisticians. Its aim is to promote the importance of statistics and data,...

This is the first in a (possibly short)  series of posts giving biographical details of famous statisticians from history. There are many...

As statistical jokes go, this is about as good as it gets. Currently available at Amazon.  

Ever wondered what league tables would look like if each team's overall performance was measured not just by their total points scored, but also by...

  Ok, I'll admit, this is a slightly contrived post just to have the excuse to include this image in the blog. However, there's been a fair bit...

  https://youtu.be/CpmDIP3Fn2Y Actually, that's reasonably profound as well as funny. (As usual with Homer). More generally,  the Simpson's is...