Avian statisticians

Statisticians Can Matter

statistical argument by comparison with a vivid but often misleading case history. In those areas of statistical applications where the forecasts implied by statistical studies can be checked, it would be useful to attempt systematic collection and validation, and to contrast forecasts made by statistical methods with those made by less formal methods. Recent developments in forecasting of busi...

New Challenges for Statisticians

Apes are intuitive statisticians.

Inductive learning and reasoning, as we use it both in everyday life and in science, is characterized by flexible inferences based on statistical information: inferences from populations to samples and vice versa. Many forms of such statistical reasoning have been found to develop late in human ontogeny, depending on formal education and language, and to be fragile even in adults. New revolutio...

Biomarker References for Pharmaceutical Statisticians

Coauthorship and citation networks for statisticians: Comment

Analyses of coauthorship and citation networks offer a fertile ground for studying research and collaboration patterns of scientific communities. Ji and Jin’s efforts of collecting, cleaning and summarizing in various ways citation and coauthorship networks for statisticians is a great step forward to provide the community with a first such data set for self-study. They perform several descript...