The November issue of
Significance has been released and is available to read online. Next month's magazine explores how statisticians that step out of their comfort zone can have a huge impact on the world around them, including by uncovering evidence of early human activity in the Amazon rainforest.
November 2024 issue highlights:
Uncovering Amazonia
Statistics helps discover the truth about ancient human life in the Amazon rainforest
Use of force in prisons
Exploring the rise in use of force in California’s high-security prisons
Helping the state lottery
What happened when a statistician spotted a mistake on the state lottery payslip?
History’s lessons for AI
How can AI developers learn from early statistics pioneers?
What’s in a name?
The winning entry in our writing competition explores data linkage with the help of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bad stats
Our new regular series revisiting well-known statistical screw-ups.
This issue: Danish sunbathers and immortal time bias
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