Statistical explainers


Issues ranging from finance, life expectancy and the spread of disease can all be informed by statistics.

Over the years, the RSS has produced lots of material to help explain statistical concepts to non-statisticians. Here are just some of them.

Advice when looking at stats

What advice would you give when looking at statistics? We posed that question to several of the speakers appearing at our 2021 Annual Conference.

Covid-19 FAQs

Demystifying the numbers behind the Covid-19 pandemic

Common statistical terms

Some key statistical terms explained.