Significance

How do you build a complex epidemiological model in record time with little or no reliable data? In the second instalment of his six-part series, Gavin Freeguard describes how different modelling groups in the UK used different data sources and assumptions to try to understand Covid-19 infection...

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What is data science? A closer look at science’s latest priority dispute

Auerbach, Jonathan; Kepplinger, David; Rios, Nicholas

2024 Significance

doi:10.1093/jrssig/qmae030

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

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Why do buildings skip the thirteenth floor?

Hardesty, Madison; Auerbach, Jonathan

2024 Significance

doi:10.1093/jrssig/qmae031

Superstition, tradition or a money-making sleight of hand? Either way, New York City apartment blocks tend to avoid having a thirteenth floor. Madison Hardesty and Jonathan Auerbach find out how much New Yorkers are prepared to pay not to live on the “unlucky” floor

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Medical statisticians: Always on tap but never on top?

Bunce, Catey; Price, Gill; Day, Simon; Kanaan, Mona

2024 Significance

doi:10.1093/jrssig/qmae026

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

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Career Story: Mona Kanaan

Kanaan, Mona

2024 Significance

doi:10.1093/jrssig/qmae032

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Household Costs Indices: The new inflation measure

Layland, Jill

2024 Significance

doi:10.1093/jrssig/qmae029

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...

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Show and tell: Stats communicators share their stories

Bennett, Hayley; Chivers, Tom

2024 Significance

doi:10.1093/jrssig/qmae028

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...

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