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Statisticians in the News

News agencies across the globe are reporting on statistics, on important developments in the fields of statistical application and how statisticians are contributing in the areas of scientific advancement, discovery and innovation. The following are a small sampling of these articles:

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December 2010

• What goes around comes around in politics 2010 style



• Reanalysis by Outside Statistician Shows Androxal® Provides Statistically Significant Improvement in Testosterone Levels in Men with Male Hormone Levels = 250 ng/dL



• Nic Marks – The Happy Planet Index



• A Bayesian Take on Julian Assange



• Make Your Hotel More Profitable and Successful – 2011 is the critical time to invest in Your Talent and Your Team



• Statistician wins $150K scholarship to interpret biomedical data



• Data quality improvements hoped for in 2011 census



• Who made Canada a better place in 2010?



• U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Slightly



• Florence Nightingale: The compassionate statistician



• Statistics Canada Gave Economic Data Early to Clients



• The Joy of Stats



• NCI Profiles in Cancer Research: Dr. Sholom Wacholder

November 2010

• City Violent Crimes Spike Even as Overall Rate Falls



• Hocus Bogus: What research can be believed?



• Top Honor for a Wildlife Professional Awarded to USGS Scientist



• New study shows American and Indian scientists are the most fraudulent



• Racial profiling to limit terror attacks is fundamentally flawed



• Orangutans count on stats for survival



• Mathematica Appoints Donsig Jang as New Director of Statistics



• Honoring great teaching



• Are you happy? Number-crunchers to try to find out



• Pay Equity For Women Remains Elusive



• To the Mapmaker Go Limited Political Spoils



• Children of Cook County, lend us your years



• Stein of Washington a Jack Of All Trades



• Big Lies, Little Lies. Fake Unemployment Data. Rising Poverty in America



• Nate Silver Still Delivering: House Effects and Bias in Forecasting



• People on the Move



• Money, Math & Medicine: Grunt work for drug companies



• CT scans reduce lung cancer deaths, according to a new study



• News editor for Significance Magazine



• Money, Math And Medicine



• Obituary: Herman P. Friedman



• The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Raheem Morris and the argument for statistics



• Outstanding Smith Teachers Featured in Film



• The Royal Society Of Canada (RSC) New Fellows 2010 (see page 9)



• Kate Smith-Miles Wins Australian Mathematical Society Medal



• Peter Hall Wins George Szekeres Medal



• Voluntary long-form census will show a rosy Canada -- and it won't be true



• Arts groups re-think the 'creative economy'



• Equation: Calculating Ballot Bungles Is All About the P-Value



• New book suggests insiders manipulate population, reveals ways to resist



• Fractals: A Tribute

October 2010

• J.N. Srivastava



• Ten statisticians every psychologist should know about



• Lack of census data will imperil policy-making



• 538's Nate Silver: Washington state is the new Florida



• The Public Announces Post-Show Discussions For THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING



• "Top statistician explains what all those numbers mean"



• Mortality research leads to spin-off technology that mines Facebook and Twitter for opinions



• Viral outbreak kept under wraps



• The Republican War on Reality



• "I wanted him back alive." An Account of Edgar Fernando García's Case from Inside "Tribunals Tower."



• My School site's misleading, UK prof says



• Verbal autopsy methods questioned



• Numbers Rule Your World by Kaiser Fung - Book review



• How Cities Get Science – or Don’t



• Statistics Bureau has the numbers



• Census Bureau Names Behler as Director of Detroit Regional Office



• Does Early Voting Show Republican Enthusiasm?



• Statistics in his blood



• Canadian statisticians mourn loss of Canada's long form census



• For statisticians, the world is truly a numbers game



• Census mourned on World Statistics Day



• Statisticians mark Statistics Day with mock funeral for census



• NDP MP's bill would protect statistician



• SA marks World Statistics Day



• Ghana joins in World Statistics Day



• Joy of stats celebrated in U.S., worldwide



• Statistics lets you count people or pets without tallying each individual



• BCS is still rigged after all these years



• Census director hails 2010 temps



• Director claims Census isn’t cost-efficient, but important



• It's good that we're statistics



• Over 350 scientists to discuss diverse issues



• ‘Shock time’ hardly makes a dent in recidivism rate



• Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science



• Mandelbrot, father of fractal geometry, dies



• Shaking The Midterm Polls: Reply Hazy, Try Again



• Why Rupert Duchesne has no problem being a nerd



• Bama Fact Check: Does the Houston County Sheriff's Office make around 400 drug arrests annually?



• First Senate Debate Airs Tonight. Or, Why Pollsters Can't Get Us Right



• Amazon Defense Coalition: Chevron’s Ecuador Cancer Problem: 10,000 People at Risk of Contracting Disease in Coming Decades, Says Expert



• "Cool It" movie seeks climate solutions: Lomborg



• Ottawa spent $1-million to test run census before abrupt Tory change



• Census 2011: stand up and be counted!



• Statistics NZ Struggling



• The 13 Careers Where You’re Most Likely to Commit Suicide



• How dodgy is the data?



• A monetary tripod



• NSO statistician, Eusebio Bezzina, seconded to Eurostat



• Record income inequality threatens democracy



• Energy security big issue, we need to address it urgently: Pronab

September 2010

• Mammogram Benefit Seen for Women in Their 40s



• UPDATE: FOIA uncovers 16 new Gardasil-related deaths



• International Team to monitor Census



• NSF urges lawmakers to back use of better science data



• Tip Sheet: U.Va. Cooper Center Demographers Provide Primer on Census Data



• L.A. Times reporter participates in Berkeley forum on "Grading the Teacher" series



• Inequality Petard



• Rambler with an interest in Bible studies is City’s highest earner



• Study statistician defends Clallam jail data, says most reporting staff sex abuse were men



• Treasury admits GDP used inappropriately



• QS World University Rankings(R) 2010: Australian Universities Show Strong Performance in Social Sciences and Management



• How the Decline in K-12 Education Enriches College Graduates



• Chinese statistician says 10-per-cent growth would be "good result"



• Gay Marriage Will Have Majority Support in Arizona by 2015, Statistician Claims



• See inflation around 7% by Dec: Pronab Sen



• U.Va. Cooper Center Talk Discusses Difficulty of Counting Race in the Census



• Two new retail price indices by Jan: Chief Statistician



• New York Times Statistician Gives Rodney Glassman a 1.5 Percent Chance at Beating John McCain in Senate Race



• My Data Have Feelings



• Can we be happy without destroying the Planet?



• Israel - PM Netanyahu Receives Annual Statistical Abstract of Israel from Govt. Statistician Prof. Shlomo Yitzhaki



• CDC Says More Americans Are Taking Prescription Drugs



• Nigeria's Economy may collapse in three months



• Tractor upgrades reduce farm deaths from rollovers



• Clear Capital: Gulf Coast housing afflicted by more than BP oil spill



• Labor Day: Honoring Labor in the South



• Review Finds No Statin-Cancer Link



• Global Warming Dissenter Bjorn Lomborg (Sort of) Has a Change of Heart

August 2010

• Think the Answer’s Clear? Look Again



• Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index



• Indian Statistical Institute has expansion plans



• Neb. office of USDA stats arm gets new leader



• Teacher scores get more exposure



• Let our cyclists bare all, if that's what they want



• Statistician: Lack of polling fueled surprise over Alaska Senate primary result
  
  
• Mike Bloomberg/Arnold Schwarzenegger: Potential for new political paradigm



• Analysts: Boeing 787 delayed until spring



• Number of Uninsured Jumped By Nearly 3 Million in 2009



• SA may get another public holiday



• Green View: Could temperature be less intemperate?



• Survey results not comparable to census data, Statistics Canada chief says



• Ex-StatsCan chief's speech cancelled



• Tories want to keep us ignorant



• Baby Boomer Bankruptcies on the Rise



• On Gay Marriage, Times Are Changin’



• NCSU stats professor Pantula to lead NSF's math division - Triangle Business Journal



• NC State Faculty Named Fellows Of American Statistical Association



• How DNA evidence creates victims of chance



• Population and housing Census is critical for development



• Hip-checking Michael Mann



• Statistical Service seeks military assistance to conduct 2010 census
  
  
• Drawing The Correct Conclusions From Clusters Of Data, Australia



• Deceptive Economic Statistics: While the economists lied the US economy died



• Statistician Says Obama’s Mosque Comments Not So Risky



• Making Statistics Meaningful



• A new measure for cricket greatness?



• A New Kind of Microchip



• Miami-Dade County doesn't join in gain as call center jobs return to US



• Outperformance Comes Many Ways



• Florence Nightingale: remembering our local pioneer



• John Bremer Joins Compete as Chief Research Officer



• KSU professor honored



• Ex-chief statistician lands job at Queen’s University



• City word maven Scott Appel contends for national Scrabble title



• Goar: Separating fact from myth in the census saga



• Andhra University out-gate road named after statistician C. R. Rao



• Solomon Wins Founders Award



• Look up and see the Northern Lights over Bristol



• How Did The Developed World Economies Come to Be in Such a Mess?



• Does a Baseball Team's Disabled List Influence Its World Series Chances?



• The numbers are starting to add up in statistics job field



• Global statistics industry leaders call for reinstatement of Canadian long-form census



• Google tool allows instant trend analysis, economist says



• Invasion of the number junkies



• Number-crunchers’ Vancouver convention set to hail Statscan’s ex-chief

July 2010

• U.S. Experts Back AstraZeneca Blood Thinner



• Were some D.C. teachers fired based on flawed calculations?



• Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: ‘Opinion polls are generally trash’



• Data science: Don’t forget psychometrics



• SFU statistician and economist criticize decision to scrap census long form



• Statisticians gather in Vancouver to discuss aiding countries in need



• Scrapping long form will be hot topic as statisticians meet



• How Tony Clement ended a great career



• Integrity of agency key to resignation



• Cass has state's 4th-highest uninsured rate



• Harper government should defer to statisticians on how to collect needed data



• Technology putting the brakes on car thefts



• Number cruncher



• The story of R: a statistical tale with a twist



• StatsCan's reputation in question



• Long or short, Tories must retreat on the census
  
  
• Harper May Reconsider Canada Census Changes After Chief Statistician Quits



• Benedict XVI among the top ten oldest Popes since 1400



• ONS: Fewer people dying each year than ever before



• For Cocoa Farmers, High Prices are Bittersweet



• Canada's Chief Statistician Resigns Amid Row With Government Over Census



• Ontario blasts plan to scrap long-form census



• Flawed arguments for census changes



• Voluntary Census long-form questionnaire: Wasting 35 years worth of Canadians’ census effort



• Call A&E! I need an intervention



• Crops Good, But Rain Will Be Needed



• Gallegos, HISD Spar on Data-Based Firings



• Fourth Anniversary of Queens Con Ed Power Outage Brings New Findings



• Come to your census, expert tells Tories



• Scientists Question Cancer Gene Trials At Duke University



• Placating Tory base on the census causes Harper government grief



• Statisticians go wild



• Tsiatis named inaugural Cox Professor



• Admit the mistake



• FDA Panel: Keep Avandia on Market With Restrictions



• The Debate Is Heated on a Drug for Diabetes



• Avandia On Trial: The FDA Counterpoint



• David Blackwell fought racism; become world-famous statistician



• Former top statisticians blast Tories for census changes



• Less information to cost more: expert



• IIP growth to get stronger ahead: Chief Statistician



• Ghana records single digit inflation for June



• Is gang crime really down in Raleigh?



• Tory census changes get static from statisticians



• UN agency keeps track of all the numbers



• Siddiqui: Gutting of census stirs opposition to Stephen Harper



• Fish experts at Providence conference discuss effects of Gulf oil gusher



• Will Avandia Be Yanked Off the Market?



• Don’t mess with census, statisticians tell Tories



• The World Cup Abuse Nightmare



• We're officially parched: Catawba County abnormally dry



• Estonian tourism up, hotel prices down



• Scientists criticize study on genetics of old age



• D.C., Baltimore jail deaths double the national average



• Critics Fume over Census Decision



• Inmate's heat-related death in Richmond was a rarity



• D.C. inmate deaths double national average



• Anti-census crusader not satisfied with federal axing of long form



• John Zogby Isn't Jealous of Nate Silver



• Census aims to (finally) move into the future



• 'Hockey Stick' Climate Scientist Found Innocent of All Charges



• Former StatsCan head slams census decision by Tories



• The 30 Signatures from Hell



• Awaiting the next Black Swan



• Remote sensing to map soil salinity



• Genealogists slam new restrictions on census information



• Greece taps IMF official to head statistics agency



• EU climate policy said costly with tiny benefits

June 2010

• Tories scrap mandatory long census



• Daily Kos sues firm for daily polls it says were ‘bunk’



• Tohanba graces statistics day



• California ranks 23rd in per-pupil spending



• Deal struck on Czech government



• Evidence mounts against diabetes drug



• World Cup stats show Holland will win



• C-TASC hires senior statistician



• Will I win the lottery? Probably not



• Pray for rain or pay more for milk, food



• Trusting the Public



• Statistical data key to development



• Carnivores salivate over cheap T-bone



• The mathematical sciences in 2025
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• Nathaniel Schenker Appointed to Head NCHS Office of Research and Methodology



• For the Nets, Third Draft Pick Might Be Second Best



• Crime Stats Figure In Illegal Immigration Debate



• ResearchPoint Names Former inVentiv Clinical Solutions VP, Stacey Arrambide, to Lead Data Management and Biostatistics



• When Capitalism Fails – the Ugly World of Monopolies



• Pregnant women baffled on booze



• Rising costs of essential services cancel out easing food inflation



• Y-12 Building 9731 shines again!



• Francis Galton, Famous for Statistical Techniques and Eugenics



• Gates grant provides a boost to Hillsborough's teacher recruitment



• Number of Uninsured Jumped By Nearly 3 Million in 2009



• Top Chinese beancounter urges accurate crop data



• Rising income disparity and despair



• These red cards at World Cup signal dark truth



• Just How Risky Are Risky Businesses?



• Battleground districts–including NM–favor GOP candidates



• Columbus volunteerism dips a bit



• University of Liverpool: Queen's Birthday Honours for University Associates



• American Statistical Association Names Alyson Wilson as JASA/TAS Reviews Editor



• The dart: A couple traces their life from New York to Stamford



• TCA Anant takes over as next chief statistician



• Tackling, touchdown-scoring D.C. Divas show no goal is out of bounds



• UN Leadership in Disarray as Scientific Dispute Shatters Consensus on Maternal Health



• Everyone Loves to Read About Marijuana Legalization



• University of Michigan Professor Roderick Little to Lead New U.S. Census Bureau Research Directorate



• SAS executive named association president



• SAS R&D Director to Be President of the American Statistical Association



• Suicide risk is higher for jobless, says study



• Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health Appoints Chair of Biostatistics



• The Many Faces (And Sculptures) Of Edward Tufte



• NISS Hires Lawrence H. Cox as Assistant Director for Official Statistics



• Math term trips up final Indiana speller



• Woodland Hills sex abuse claims 'shocking,' DCS official tells feds



• Is Barry Bonds or Ken Griffey Jr. living with the greater regret?



• Prison inmate population on the decline nationally, locally



• WHO had financial ties to GlaxoSmithKline and Roche when it issued flu pandemic guidelines



• Times to Host Blog on Politics and Polls



• History of ‘peak coal’ is guide for our oil quandary



• Indictment adds weapons charges against Hutaree



• Calculating aid for Haiti



• Are That Many Black Folks Really on Twitter?



• Odd Zone: Misery for England in 2010 World Cup, says statistician



• Bureau has numbers for Census trial



• Renowned statistician to teach course for veterinarians



• Why Your No. 1 Child is more likely to be No.1 in the charts



• Inflation drops to 4.4 per cent



• India Chief Statistician: April-June GDP Growth Likely Close To 9%



• Reform for the Next Census

May 2010

• Simpson’s Paradoxical Card Trick



• It’s the same old song for Europe: the Balkanistas versus the Viking alliance



• Do We Tolerate Too Many Traffic Deaths?



• UPDATE 2-US panel backs Theratech drug for HIV patients



• Keller to head Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington



• Commodity prices shoot up, shows new report



• NCTM President Shaughnessy and Four Board Members Begin Terms



• Political Polling Becomes Alarmingly Inaccurate as More Households Give Up Landlines



• Twitter power: Learning from ourselves, in real time



• Zimbabwe Overhauls Economic and Social Data Reporting Agency With ADB Funds



• Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life



• Merwin: Study Says Most Women Don't Like Pink Fishing Gear



• Green Collars Converge in Daejeon for IASP to Discuss Green Tech Futures



• The truth about chemicals



• Gov 2.0 Week in Review



• Behaving prisoners tend to get shorter time in Alabama



• Heavy Rain Causing Some Illinois Farmers to Replant Corn



• Exchange rate policy needs a re-look: Chief statistician



• A song by Marta



• Ex-professor overhauling statistics office



• Does "Behavior Detection" Work?



• Democrats and Vote Fraud: On the Road to Rigged Elections



• Back Away from That Baby!



• Eyewitness Account of ‘Watershed’ Brain Scan Legal Hearing



• Bureau health survey goes for the doctor



• Barbara Hollingsworth: U.Va.'s dishonorable double standard



• What Is the Probability of Winning Back-to-Back Baseball Games?



• Is 2010 Making Me Fat?



• Former Census Bureau statistician denounces Census Bureau Director’s words as misleading to the public



• To be or not to be: Shakespeare's 'stylometrics'



• Florence Nightingale- Nurse, Feminist, Statistician, Author



• RBI to examine reasons for sudden surge in food prices



• U.S. Census Bureau Reports Residents Move at Higher Rate in 2009 After Record Low in 2008



• Mark Sellke, Indiana 8th- Grader and California Team named National Mathematics Champions at 2010 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS(R) National Competition



• Mathematicians Take On Luck



• Even Nate Silver Can't Figure Out the Washington Senate Race



• Farmers Starting to Turn to Soybeans



• Climate Science: Key Questions and Answers
  
  
• Record drop in unemployment



• Task force is to seek solutions to gangs and violence



• Car Crashes Leading Cause of Teen Deaths in U.S.



• Report warns of global warning costs



• Car Crashes Leading Cause of Teen Deaths in U.S.



• New Zealand Statistician Wins $10,000 Prize For Investment Management Advancements



• The Truth of Things: When Probability & Statistics Cannot Be Used



• Chronicle of a disaster foretold plays out on the streets of Athens



• Florence Nightingale to be honoured with her own chapel in Westminster Abbey



• State of Virginia to Investigate Global Warming Scientist Mann



• Projecting Cropped Biomass Supplies: The Landowner Factor



• Himalaya wrap-up: more Annapurna, cold on Makalu, summit push ahead on Shisha



• Finasteride, To Take, or Not to Take

April 2010

• Exposed: climate change doubter with PhD only in spin



• School leader gets mixed welcome



• Update: UK Election Daily: New Poll Shows Labour Vote Steady



• Tamera Frank, Ralph E. Hise Jr. and Andy Webb face off for NC Senate 47 primary nod



• Westerman Road Rage: Behind the Numbers



• Pittsburgh-area census participation matches 2000 level



• Hiding inflation



• Census: Foreign-Language Households on Rise in US



• Think tank says voters in Flintshire will not make an impact at General Election



• Meet Steve Puetz



• UK Election Daily: Conservative Support Moves Up



• Corn Falls to Three-Week Low as Farmers Accelerate Planting



• Clinical drug tests adapted for speed



• The U.S. military's fight against PowerPoint



• A Cure for Cancer: One Man's Quest to Change Cancer Treatment, Part 3



• The Life of a Statistician



• Climategate Lesson: Lawsuits Won't Stop Videos From Ridiculing You



• California Assembly committee endorses UC Berkeley statistician's election auditing method



• Stimulus package should continue, says chief statistician



• It's fun, but when position players pitch, bad things usually happen



• US FDA panel rejects King, Acura painkiller



• New appointments at Ghana Statistical Service rages war



• Graham Nicholls Joins Almac as Director of Biostatistics



• World Bank creates website for development data



• EBRD proposes Czech PM Fischer as vice-pres



• Cocaine fever is gripping Sydney



• Statistician Nate Silver Takes on the KFC Double Down



• What We Don’t Know About the Economy



• It Is 90% Certain That Unemployment Rose. Or Fell.



• Climategate: 'Hockey stick' bashed by statistician



• Hockey-stick graph all pucked up



• Population census is an indispensable governance tool



• No bail - go directly to jail



• A place in the sun



• Top Climate Scientist Under Fire for 'Exaggerating' Global Warming



• Iain Johnstone named recipient of Royal Statistical Society’s Guy Medal in Silver (See page 2.)



• Academic experts clear scientists in 'climate-gate'



• EU Statistician: Goldman Likely Wasn't Only Bank Helping EU Governments



• Statistical Service staff up in arms against government statistician



• The Most Livable Neighborhoods in New York



• Nate Silver: More on New York Neighborhood Livability Index



• Terence’s Stuff: Firing Statistics Faculty (see page 11)



• Jingle For 2010 Census Launched



• RBI needs to take monetary action: Sen



• Stats Boss Under Fire



• 1st Weekly Crop Report Published



• New principal vows to make university world leader



• The Specialists



• 2010 Wiener Prize

March 2010

• Take $787 Billion. Now Show Where It’s Going.



• Scientists need the guts to say: I don’t know



• The many origins of intelligence



• Could Obama be invincible?



• It's wrong is wrong



• NCAER launches consumer research centre



• Constitution Day Blues



• Weaker manufacturing numbers not a concern, officials say



• Census Milestones



• Richard Smith Named New Director of SAMSI



• Ranking Doctors by Cost-Profile May Not Help Save Money



• U.S. Youth Likely To Face Greater Health Issues



• How Toyota strayed from the quality-control path and lost its way



• UTSA College of Business hosts national statistics conference March 17-20



• Vaccine Court Ruling: Thimerosal Does Not Cause Autism



• Believe it or not, a pollster returns to the fray



• Population census starts



• Sceptical environmentalism



• Stats spark accusations in sheriff's race



• Is the Army losing its war against drug abuse?



• Education colleges focus on preparation



• Seeking Answers In A Maze Of Health Studies



• Odds are, it's wrong



• The numbers game



• Are Statheads the NBA's Secret Weapon?



• What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once?



• NATO’s Rasmussen Gets Mixed Reactions In Prague, Czechs Uncertain Partners



• The Stock of Credit and the Credit-Crunch Fallacy



• Political Economy: Drawing a New Line



• Road to recovery: A year after the crack of doom, the economy is humming along



• Honest, violent Abe



• An unlikely tale: A family that survived the earthquakes of both Haiti and Chile



• Think like a statistician – without the math



• UK Scientists Devise Worldwide Food Alert System



• Home Births Rise, Mostly By Choice



• Do most marriages last?



• Building a Better Teacher



• Budget may cause unemployment to rise



• Royal society honors engineering professor



• Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality Publishes Papers Presented at NISS Workshop: Data Confidentiality: The Next Five Years



• Thinking like a statistician ... to avoid disaster



• USGS Scientists at BSC to discuss flooding



• Report: Cohabiting has little effect on marriage success



• Cocoa Falls to Three-Month Low on Outlook for Recovering Output



• Iowa State physicist writes a better formula to predict baseball success

February 2010

• Nurse fights murder conviction



• Obama Medical Exam Sunday Will Include Bad News // His Smoking More than Doubles His Chances of Dying



• Other cancer clusters in South Florida?



• People with Rheumatoid Arthritis May Age Faster



• Food prices slow Ugandan inflation in Feb



• L-S principal fears consequences of a no-override budget



• The Mathematics Of Cancer



• Data, data everywhere



• Poll won't stop the dawn of Dave



• Taiwan’s Economy Exits Recession on Global Recovery



• S.D. data flawed in report on schools



• Can Condoms Help Save Polar Bears?



• U.S. Gets Annual Health Checkup



• Stats pioneers OECD-made warehouse



• NHS Borders slashes cancer treatment waiting times



• Six faculty members elected to National Academy of Engineering



• Viewpoint: Instant Runoff Voting



• Inflation surges to 13-month high of 8.56 pc, breaches RBI target



• Greek Statistician Is Caught in Limelight



• Bioscience sector growing - Statistics NZ



• Calculate Your Time to Get Married



• Taleb: Buffett is Lucky



• Dramatic increase in the number of proud parents whose sons ‘do something with computers’



• Inflation drops to 14.78%



• 400 teachers may face firing over test scores



• US property index reports price increases



Global warming: When in trouble, slime the opposition


• Want to win PowerBall? Spend R85m



• Former Singapore Chief Statistician Paul Cheung: Singapore can still accommodate more people



• Part-Time Workers To Help Conduct Census



• Carty: Recall belies the quality principles that steer Toyota



• Statistics New Zealand Launches Business Toolbox



• Census Bureau Obscured Personal Data -- Too Well, Some Say



• Census Bureau’s Balancing Act



• Trust me – I'm a statistician



• The Luckiest Places To Win The Lottery



• OO-ALC chief of staff retires



• Michigan State Winter University program in Naples takes on education



• Govt. To Decide Withdrawal Of Stimulus After FY10 GDP: Chief Statistician



• NZ unemployment climbs to almost 170,000



• Democrats and journalists ‘bored’ by Obama question-and-answer session



• Orlando home prices lagging behind rest of nation



• The Problem With Dow ETFs



• Regional jobless rate jumps in Dec.



• Decreased demand, recession reduce barge traffic to 15-year low



• Stellar Wins Call Centre Services Contract with Australian Bureau of Statistics



• Smithsonian Congress of Scholars Annual Symposium



• 40 Years of Bringing Culturally Diverse Scholarship to the Smithsonian

January 2010

• Statistics Serving Biomedicine.



• Numbers don't always tell the whole story



• Royal Statistical Society Welcomes Appointment of Bernard Silverman as Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser



• Deepak Lal: Man-made global warming



• Not so rare for rarities to occur in waves: Professor



• Bad Linguistics… sigh



• Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics



• For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics ZZ



• Here’s the Constituency report



• Left erupts over Obama spending freeze proposal



• New Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser announced



• The Hole In The EPA's Ozone Claims



• Mary D. McKoy Completes Congressional Operations Certificate from TheCapitol.Net



• Pat on the back for science



• A Mixed Report on American Health



Indian Market Set To Extend Losses


• Filmmaker Seeks to Temper the Message of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’



• Our Panel's Predictions for Sunday



• Swine Flu Count Plagued by Flawed Data



• Area unemployment hits 5.2 percent



• A Random Walk to the End Zone



• Winter Wager Almost Yields Windfall



• Property investments hit 3.6t yuan



• Statistical system processes have to change



• Statistics Serving Biomedicine



• SAS: A new no. 1 best employer



• Science, statistics and society



• Science, statistics and society



• Royal Statistical Society Welcomes Appointment of Bernard Silverman as Home Office Chief Scientific Adviser



• Busch: What If The Unthinkable Inflation Returns?



• Year-End Inflation Target Missed Narrowly



• Exposed: The real meaning behind the clichés people use



• More seniors picking Athens for retirement



• H1N1 impact greater than 2003 blackout



• Inflation breaches comfort zone, fuel fears of rate hike



• Iain champions cause of building societies



• SABR opposes 'sabermetrics' trademark



• UPDATE 2-US panel rejects wider use of Forest drug



• HISD may fire teachers over test scores



• China becomes world's largest exporter



• Butler's offensive success? Choose your numbers



• Sexual victimization found at Cambria County youth facility



• Inland traffic fatalities take annual drop



• Congratulations to the Octagon for Grabbing the Most Network Facetime of 2009



• Report: Health Care Spending Growth Rate Slowest in Decades



• Record High Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S.



• Seduced into spending thousands on lottery tickets



• India Science Award for eminent statistician C.R. Rao



• Frontier scientists track whales in the ice



• Twice an M.V.P., but Never a Shoo-In