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Significance Allows Statistics to Tell COVID-19 Story
Significance issued an open call for contributions, asking statisticians and data scientists “to help us explain the statistics of COVID-19.”
Significance Explores Statistics in Court
The latest issue of Significance features articles about gerrymandering, epidemiology on trial, and dealing with ethical dilemmas.
Significance Spotlights Arithmetic Mean in December Issue
The December 2017 issue of Significance is now available in print and digital formats. The cover story tells the history of the arithmetic mean.
Significance Gets New Look
To coincide with the start of a new volume of Significance, both the print and online magazine underwent a major redesign.
Science Establishes Dedicated Statistical Review Panel
Science magazine editor-in-chief, Marcia McNutt, recently announced the July 1 appointment of a new statistical board of reviewing editors (SBoRE)—composed of prominent members of the statistical community—that will help address reproducibility issues and increase confidence in the papers published in the magazine.
Contributors Sought for Significance
Significance magazine is looking for contributors.
Editor Sought for CHANCE Magazine
Have you ever considered being an editor for a statistics magazine? Here’s your CHANCE.
Fall Issue Asks ‘What Is Jeopardy?’
CHANCE starts out with an article by Jason Crowley, Brenna Curley, and Dave Osthus that analyzes results from the game show “Jeopardy” from 1984–2009. Graphical analysis is used to depict trends across the show’s history. Also included is a sidebar with new developments for the magazine.
Significance Magazine—An ASA and RSS Partnership
Beginning with the September 2010 issue, the ASA and the Royal Statistical Society will collaborate on the publication of the statistical outreach magazine Significance. Each ASA member will receive the quarterly as a benefit of membership. Here, Julian Champkin, editor of Significance, offers a brief introduction to the magazine.
How does a flock of a million starlings or more manage to keep itself together as it wheels about the sky? How can you fairly handicap a yacht race? Do big firms or small firms create more jobs? Is organic milk really better for your health than nonorganic? And where exactly are the certainties—and, as important, the uncertainties—in climate change? Statistics holds the answer to all of these questions. Significance is a magazine about statistics.