{"id":21515,"date":"2018-01-10T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colef.mx\/elmuro\/?p=21515"},"modified":"2018-01-10T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T21:26:20","slug":"the-top-statistics-of-the-year-news-from-the-world-of-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colef.mx\/elmuro\/the-top-statistics-of-the-year-news-from-the-world-of-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"The top statistics of the year – News from the World of Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Over the past 365 days, statistics have come and statistics have gone. But, none more striking than these\u00a0important ones of 2017<\/a>\u00a0compiled by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) in its effort to look back on all that was statistics in the United Kingdom and internationally, as well.<\/p>\n

Nominations were made by members of the public as well as RSS members worldwide. The judging panel, chaired by RSS president, David Spiegelhalter, includes former UK National Statistician, Jil Matheson and BBC News home editor Mark Easton.<\/p>\n

‘We were delighted with the quality of the nominations for the inaugural\u00a0\u2018Statistic of the Year\u2019<\/em>, said RSS executive director Hetan Shah. ‘Taken together, the selected statistics tell us a story about important issues in 2017: land use (in the context of debates about housing), pressures on pay, mobile phone usage, teen pregnancies, our environment, and even deaths by lawnmowers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Special Issue of CHANCE Spotlights Value, Significance of Statistics in Climate Research<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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The December 2017 issue of\u00a0CHANCE<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is entirely dedicated to climate research, specifically the role that statistics play in detecting, attributing and projecting climate change. With the recent spate of devastating natural disasters and extreme weather events like Hurricane Maria that struck Puerto Rico, this edition is a must read for anyone in the statistics community interested in learning how climate models function, their challenges and new research endeavors in the age of Big Data.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The December 2017 issue of the\u00a0Statistical Journal of the IAOS<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is now out! With a special theme of\u00a0\u00abImplementation of Fundamental Principles of Statistics, the edition focuses on implementation in developing countries. Manuscripts address the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development and the implications for official statistics. The program contains 17 goals that aim to fundamentally improve the living conditions of present and future generations and to protect the planet. The agenda is grounded in the principles of international human rights treaties, and nations have made a firm commitment to \u201cleave no one behind\u201d in implementing the SDGs. Included is an interview with Oliver Chinganya, Director of the African Center for Statistics at the UN Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

A timely conversation conducted with Monica Dashen and Rachel Green touches on their experiences on a volunteer project with Statistics without Borders (SwB) in Haiti during the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew (October 2016). In September of this year, the countries and territories of the Caribbean were hit especially hard by a series of hurricanes. The IAOS, the ISI, and SwB are working with regional partners such as Caricom and the Inter-American Statistical Institute (IASI) to identify areas where the NSOs may need help and support. Other manuscripts in this issue deserve mentioning include the winning paper of the 2016 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians (YSP): \u201cBalancing Input-Output Tables with Bayesian Slave-Raiding Ants,\u201d by Rolando Gonzales Martinez.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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The Statistics Education Research Journal Volume 16, Number 2 is now available! Guest Editors include Rolf Biehler, Daniel Frischemeier and Susanne Podworny, with the assistance of Associate Editor Randall Groth. This special publication focuses on models in the context of informal statistical inference. It also includes regular papers from Editor Maxine Pfannkuch.\u00a0Please visit the main SERJ page at\u00a0iase-web.org\/Publications.php?p=SERJ<\/a>\u00a0for information about submitting manuscripts for review, and to access past issues.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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BigSurv18 to Connect Survey Science, Big Data in October 2018
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Help solve the challenge of combining Big Data and Survey Science. Meet with experts and exchange ideas about promising technologies and methodologies for using massive datasets and state-of-the-art analytical techniques to improve, supplement or replace data and estimates from complex surveys and censuses. Conducted by RTI International and ESRA, BigSurv18 is the intersection of survey science and Big Data and takes place October 25-27, 2018 at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology, in Barcelona. A call for papers will soon be issued. Learn more about the conference, see who is on the Scientific Committee, and find out about sponsorship opportunities atwww.bigsurv18.org<\/a><\/em>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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