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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 2011

• Facts and figures



• 'Winner's curse' unlikely to strike Rangers



• Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain may have died aged 27 but its not a doom-laden age for musicians: research



• UK Statistics Authority challenges Cable over pre-release access error



• The Mystery Behind Anesthesia



• Ron Paul projected to win Iowa caucuses as Gingrich slips



• Mega-quake clusters unlikely: study



• 17th-Century Londoners Died of Fright, Itch and Grief



• Good Morning. You're Nobel Laureates.



• Reflections on Teaching Statistics Again



• Ag statistician figures it's time to go



• Scientists roll out plan to monitor B.C. salmon for virus



• Statistically significant



• UQ statistician receives major research award



• Big six energy firms face fresh accusations of profiteering



• Numbers in action



• Small Practices Finally Get On Board EHR Train



• The Takeaway: 65+ Population In U.S. Higher Than Ever; Jobless Rate Falls Below 9 Percent



• Mary Carolyn: Former Redskins cheerleader-turned-statistician

November 2011

• Data chief says Italy risks recession, recommends property tax



• Should Israelis Debate War With Iran?



• Ottawa needs to repair damage to census-gathering process: Ivan Fellegi



• Poverty Rose Slower than Thought-Is that Good News?



• Obama's reelection chances



• Controversial X-ray method sparks detention concerns



• College creates endowed professorship in statistics



• From Bondi to the big bucks: the 28-year-old who's making data science a sport



• At Moneyball U, What Are the Odds?



• Mathematically Detecting Stock Market Bubbles Before They Burst



• Group recommends 911 call-handling procedures to reduce service outages



• Stats-SA threatens criminal charges



• Jews Need Count, Not Wishful Thinking



• Unemployment rates decrease with age

October 2011

• Dr. Carl Bowman '79 and Dr. Roger Hoerl '79 honored for lifetime achievements



• SAS ups 'big data' ante with high-performance computing platform



• Dr. Deming's Cycle



• Breaking News: The Earth Still Goes Around the Sun, and It's Still Warming Up



• U.S. senators raise alarm over B.C. sockeye virus



• DIFICID™ Demonstrated Early Superiority in the First 12 Days Compared to Vancomycin in New Analysis of Phase 3 Study Results



• The End Of History



• Obama taps Northwestern U. prof Larry Hedges for education panel



• IG council honors star performers



• Budget cuts reduce number, frequency of NASS reports



• 'Lethal' Atlantic salmon disease found in B.C. wild



• The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis



• Cops on the trail of crimes that haven't happened



• "High School Statistics Quiz" highlights Stat Month



• Economic policy: Shooting in the dark



• At last, equal time for the inequality issue



• Statistician explores deportations since 9/11



• EPA's Reif a Presidential Early Career Award winner



• Eviction notices up statewide - More renters struggling to pay their landlords



• How much are you spending on food every month?



• 'Moneyball' is consistently smart and funny



• Study: Replacing census could take a decade



• DODEA seniors' test scores in line with national decline



• $53.8m in science funding announced



• All The Buzz: Infographics



• Contextualizing Cycling Stats.

September 2011

• The Pistons are getting smart



• President Obama Honors Nation's Top Scientists and Innovators



• DAVID SPIEGELHALTER: Probability And Statistics Really Are Difficult To Understand



• Newton alumni appointed as engineering fellow at Corning



• The Science is Right: Salmon, Delta Smelt and other Fish Populations are at Risk of Becoming Extinct



• Bone drug is mixed blessing for breast cancer patients



• Kent Koprowicz Promoted to New Position at Axio Research



• Statisticians' Seminar Produces Top Class Results



• Google+ Passes 43 Million Users?



• Performance Appraisals, an Inspector General, and the Bell Curve



• New report 'A Culture of Cruelty' finds systemic abuses by U.S. Border Patrol



• Gary Johnson says U.S. prisons are packed with small-time drug dealers



• The future of the internet lies in Asia



• Murder Arrest Rate Dropped 54 Percent Between 1980 and 2009



• Cognitive Biases in Sports: The Irrationality of Coaches, Commentators and Fans



• Health insurance coverage up slightly



• Financial stress linked to violence: study



• For activists, Troy Davis case is indicative of racial bias



• Earthquake victim's mum objects to trial



• Census Bureau Director Robert Groves Appoints New Members and Chairwoman to Scientific Advisory Committee



• Science writing award winner makes statistical sense of an imperfect world



• Ex-chief statistician picks apart cancellation of long census



• Study: Big Ten teams most popular



• Statistician explores deportations since 9/11



• Does Evolutionary Science Disprove the Faith?



• Braun: Christie misses the mark on grading teachers, author says



• Paul Meier; The life-saver



• A gloomy outlook for I.E. housing market



• Boosting Voting Rates, With One Question



• Xarelto Runs The Gauntlet



• Hearing on Marcus Reymond Robinson's Racial Justice Act complaint delayed



• The Tribes of Science: The Statisticians



• Uneducated guesses: Reforming education by committee rather than evidence



• Data scientist: The hot new gig in tech



• Prison industry programs a victim of economic recession



• Does Maggie Daley's After School Matters really matter?

August 2011

• Retired police captain says law enforcement officers die 10 years earlier than most people



• Catching Obesity From Friends May Not Be So Easy



• A conversation with Paul Meier



• The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind



• How three groups collected almost 70% of lottery winnings



• Indian American C.R. Rao receives the RSS Guy Medal Award



• Talk about making your own luck! Elderly couple who spent $600,000 on lottery tickets to win millions in prizes



• Renowned biostatistician awards endowed professorship to SOPH faculty



• North Carolina group suggests compensating sterilization victims

July 2011

• "Randomized Field Experiments Were Tried and Rejected More Than a Century Ago"



• Go Figure: What can 72 tell us about life?



• Count Differently: Worry Less, Be Happier



• Diabetes Drug Dapagliflozin Rejected by F.D.A. Panel



• ‘Robo-polls’ don’t lie



• From Art To Science



• How women who weigh less than their husbands have better marriages



• App helps you avoid lines at Disney



• Add Patience to a Leap of Faith to Discover Cancer Signatures



• Maybe G+ Isn't Quite As Much of a Boys Club



• 5 real-world uses of big data



• Google to add 20 million to new social network



• Census Budget: House Bill Would Gut Economic Monitoring, Endanger GDP And Other Stats



• Stats SA excoriates jobless data extrapolated by Adcorp under



• The Poor Have Numbers. Do They Count?



• Yankee Ingenuity: A Review



• How Bright Promise in Cancer Testing Fell Apart



• Subbarao raises eyebrows over data reliability



• Lung Cancer Deaths Reduced By 20 Percent By Undergoing CT Scans



• America's 15th financial panic... and our recovery from it



• Elders not told of risks in hip study, US alleges

June 2011

• Can An Optional Questionnaire Fill the Shoes of the Long-Form Census?



• AllAnalytics.com Launches Business Intelligence Community



• Strange But True: Explaining a rare hairy occurrence



• FDA to Look Again at Drug's Breast Ca Indication



• Research Flights Seek to Improve View of Air Pollution from Space



• ABC News Attacks Scientist Who Exposed Bias In Obesity Research



• Help Change the World with Data Science



• Parents seeing double again



• Treatment up for prescription drug, alcohol abuse



• NASA Project To Assess Air Pollution From Space



• Firefighter union chief says Providence has one of the busiest fire departments for its size in the U.S.



• Blood-poisoning cases double over last decade



• Stats Prof Analyzes NHL Draft



• Boom-time machine



• New Math in HIV Fight



• A Healthy Dose of Loyalty



• How Baseball Is Different From Politics



• Supreme Court deals harsh blow to employees' rights in Walmart decision



• TRAC is a trove of FOIA data and story nuggets for business writers



• Florence Nightengale & Health Care Reform



• Haiti: US embassy knew of earthquake vulnerability



• British Medical Leaders Report Results of Global Heart Attack Study



• GOP plan means doing more with less



• Numbercrunching The Appeal Of The DC Relaunch



• Conflicting policies on flying under ash confuse



• Not disclosing statistical data will now call for fine



• Don't forget the longer census: province



• Attention waffle lovers: U.S. oozes maple syrup



• A new grading scale



• Fewer French Fried: The Paradox Of Urban (And Global) Warming



• Alcohol Sales Bounce Back Despite (Or Because Of?) Unemployment



• ONS should take charge of British Crime Survey, says National Statistician



• Can statistics predict the Stanley Cup?



• Climate Change FOIA Hypocrisy: Information About Climate Change Research Wants to Be Free



• Bjørn Lomborg: Debunked by Climate Science Rapid Response Team



• Abolishing the long-form census muzzles women's organizations



• Teacher Of The Year: Wall Street No Preparation To Manage A Classroom

May 2011

• Birth: U.S. home births increase 20% from 2004 to 2008



• Census Bureau Deputy Director to Receive 2011 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics



• New government unit may predict financial storms



• Census: Alaska sees increase in minority population, median age



• Are Your Breathing Problems Lung Disease?



• Hyperinflation and Double-Dip Recession Ahead



• Famous experts at your disposal, all for the low, low price of $1,000 an hour



• Late baby boomers at risk



• O.C. could see fewer election recounts



• National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected



• Election Night Preview: How CTV makes 'the call'



• Royal Wedding Reporting Expenditure is Over $50 billion



• Middle-income Canadians headed for lower living standards in retirement: report

April 2011

• StatsCan underestimating province's growth, official says



• Short-form census makes debut Monday



• Study: Antibiotics, not surgery, may better treat appendicitis if appendix hasn't burst



• Picture this . . .



• Software Engineer Ranked Best Job for 2011



• The Business On... Jil Matheson, National Statistician



• Wisconsin Politics: Shooting at Decoys?



• Too Big to Fail



• Saturday a deadly day on Myrtle Beach area roads



• Mapping Crime Patterns with Geography and Math



• Bad air needs a scalpel, not a sledgehammer



• Vast Gene Study Yields Insights on Alzheimer’s



• Making a Stat Less Significant



• A Statistical Test Gets Its Closeup



• A draft study: Many ways to build a team



• The number game



• Why we’re all far too sure of ourselves



• A Canada-U.S. tax gap means a Canada-U.S. tax transfer



• Best job of 2011: software engineer



• HDHPs Pose No Additional Risk to Medically Vulnerable



• Heckman on Terman's Termites



• JAX a good place to fly cheap



• Census team counting on computers



• Census Bureau expands use of ‘this thing called the Internet’



• Herdt: What folks don't know about preventive care



• Global warming skeptics get unexpected early results



• Vast Gene Study Yields Insights on Alzheimer’s

March 2011

• Workplace violence down 75 pct. since '93



• Report: Cancer Rates Declining in the US



• CDC Reports Biggest Birth Rate Drop in 30 years



• Survey shows social networking friends may not have your back



• In the Archives: Women’s Underwear



• Bankruptcy Costs Rise 9.5% a Year on Fees, Professor Says



• Property tax receipts decline



• Obituary: Richard Pierre Claude



• Household Energy Efficiency Gains Eclipsed by Too Many Gadgets



• Screw the Cheating: It's a Statistical Experiment. Was It Designed Well?



• Happy birthday, healthcare reform



• Supreme Court Rules Against Zicam Maker



• A Data State of Mind



• The Knowledge



• Largest study of high-deductible health plans finds savings, less preventive care



• Data: Life expectancy at all-time high in U.S.



• Performance data a crucial tool in bridging achievement gap



• Wheat export boom



• Statistics can help us avoid counterfeit goods on the internet, study shows



• Hangover help, binge drinking, and breast disease connection



• Next census gathering has begun, passed 'point of no return,' says new StatsCan chief



• Don't Settle for Good Enough.



• Hans Rosling, Fareed Zakaria Speak On CNN Special About How World Is Catching Up To U.S. (VIDEO)



• If You Haven't Already, Meet Victor Niederhoffer



• Virginia blew a 100 percent safe lead



• Namibia: New Statistics Bill Introduced



• Lover's lane for birds found in Arctic



• Counting the Dead in Afghanistan



• Success of voluntary survey in hands of Canadians: StatsCan chief



• Diabetes Belt Defined Across South-East US



• Does promiscuity cause depression?



• Research and Markets: Data Mining for Business Intelligence: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications



• In praise of... William Farr



• The Great Carmelo Debate



• Bogus arguments for Tucson ethnic studies finally debunked



• Wesley Research Institute Announces ‘Researcher of the Year’



• India still laggard in per capita manufacturing



• QUT professor claims research title



• Brother, Can You Spare a Statistician?
  At ARPA-E, everyone wants to know how to take advantage of all of these new data streams.



• Destroy completed census forms, dispose of blank ones



• Has Nate Silver Ruined the Oscars?



• Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep

February 2011

• Fair and accurate elections, statistically speaking



• Voluntary census has fundamental gaps



• Rasmussen Wisconsin Poll ‘Biased.’ ‘Disregard,’ Use ‘Extreme Skepticism’



• Evolution in the management of breast cancer



• Is census data usable? ‘Our thinking has evolved,’ chief statistician says



• StatsCan chief wants us to do our part for census



• What do we really know about the SA economy?



• Statisticians Must Gear Up to Counter New Allenges-Gill



• Provisional Census Figures Subject To Change - Govt Statistician



• Ottawa now urges you to answer ‘intrusive’ questions



• Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'



• Investors Charged With Managing Risk Mustn't Confuse Ideology With Science



• Statistician Cracks Secret Code Behind Lottery Tickets



• Statisticians hunt better ways to count trade figures



• Nobel Peace Prize proposed Lovric, Komic and Dumancic (Google translation)
  List of Contributors to the Encyclopedia Series



• The Cost of Doing Business in the U.S.

January 2011

• Ghana Statistical Service to release preliminary results of 2010 Census



• 10 Cities Where Home Prices Will Rise in 2011



• Medical research proven to be mostly flawed



• 50 Years of Quality: SPC Unleashed



• Who are the morons who insist on a run-off as a solution to Preval’s electoral crime???



• Statistical significance



• Evolving Loyalty And Engagement Assessments



• Birth Control Update, in Thousands of Interviews



• The Canadian Long-Form Census: Lessons for Statistics
  Click on the link below, then select “Canadian Census Row” under Contents



• Understanding the anesthetized brain



• New head of StatsCan faces tough road ahead



• U.S. Secretary of Commerce Appoints Colorado State University Statistics Professor to National Committee



• It’s Official – Skiing is More Dangerous Than Snowboarding



• A Reading List for Stats Fans



• Hurrah! Are Price Indices On The Ropes?



• Rarity of Glencoe tragedy makes it even more shocking



• Workshop on price survey opens



• Canada PM Names New Chief Statistician



• Renowned Statistician Finds Florida DMV Study "Fatally Flawed on All Levels"



• National health spending growth held to record-breaking low



• China bans Bayesian statistics textbook



• Numb3rs Creators Awarded JPBM Communications Award



• Cancer Costs Predicted to Skyrocket to $158 Billion by 2020



• Lies, damn lies, and statistics



• Three University of Cincinnati ( UC ) professors have been awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS )



• Use of curve grading questionable



• You Might Already Know This ...



• President Names Former BLS Commissioner Katharine Abraham to CEA



• Got Dough? Public School Reform in the Age of Venture Philanthropy



• Flawed research appalls cancer patient



• Out for the count: Could the 2011 census be the last?



• Spinning Unemployment in a Collapsing Empire



• Peter Andresen: Think the unthinkable - and then prepare for it



• Interview: Andrew Gelman on Statistics



• Conservatives relied on a few complaints to scrap the census



• Decision Sciences Myths Debunked



• Census releases alternative formulas for gauging poverty



• Mega Millions Jackpot Drawing Tuesday Night



• More GOPers Denounce Palin's 2012 Chances