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In previous posts I discussed the Royal Statistical Society's 'Statistic of the Year' award. I'm now grateful to Richard for having pointed out that...

I mentioned in a previous post the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), which is the UK's foremost organised body of statisticians. In addition to its...

You might remember in a couple of earlier posts (here and here) I discussed the Royal Statistical Society's 'Statistic of the Year' competition. I...

  In an earlier post, Get out of jail,  I set the following problem: If I roll a standard dice until I get a 6, how many rolls of the dice will...

Generally speaking there are three main phases to any statistical analysis: Design; Execution; Presentation. Graphical techniques play an important...

Struggling for ideas for Christmas presents? Stuck with an Amazon voucher from your employer and don't know what to do with it? No idea how you're...

I've written a couple of posts now - here and here - where I've mentioned the Duckworth-Lewis method. As I explained in the first of those posts,...

  As a footnote to last week's post 'How to be wrong', I mentioned that Daniel Kahneman had been shown to be wrong by using unreliable research...

As a rule, I don't intend to use this blog to cover standard theory in probability or Statistics. But for a number of reasons, which will become...

We think that this is the most extreme version and it’s not based on facts. It’s not data-driven. We’d like to see something that is more...

When I'm not feeling too fragile to be able to handle it, I sometimes listen to James O'Brien on LBC. As you probably know, he hosts a talk show in...

In a previous post I set a variation of the classic birthday problem: What's the least number of people you need in a room for there to be a 50%...