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May 16, 2026
David Hand, Imperial College London, writes on the problem of translating substantive questions to statistical questions:
If we wanted to decide whether the total weight of passengers on a plane exceeded that allowed by the airline given the flight conditions, we could gather all of them together on…
Marianne Huebner, Michigan State University, has a plan to protect you from having to take these statistical painkillers for your data headaches. Devise your data collection to ensure that your statistics are transparent, reproducible, and trustworthy. She writes:
Imagine you contribute to a manuscript reporting an observational study…
Layla Parast, University of Texas at Austin, has some advice for beginner researchers. The small things, done well and reliably, really do matter. She writes:
Every year, I talk to undergraduates who are interested in “doing research.” This is, in general, a very good instinct. Research is one…
Cun-Hui Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University, is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the American Statistical Association. His research interests include high-dimensional data, machine learning, empirical Bayes, time series, nonparametric methods, multivariate analysis, survival data and biostatistics, functional MRI, closed loop diabetes control,…
Philip A. Ernst is Chair in Statistics and Royal Society Wolfson Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. He earned his PhD in Statistics in 2014 from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include exact distribution theory, mathematical finance, optimal stopping, queueing systems,…