How can statistics help us to make informed decisions. Find out with this brief explanation of hypothesis testing?
We talk to David Spiegelhalter about eggs, politics, coins and his new book The art of uncertainty.
If you've flipped heads 10 times what's the next flip most likely to be? Bayes' theorem has the answer, not just for the coin, but for the pursuit of science generally.
Trying to make a prediction about the world based on dodgy data? Then data assimilation has the answer!
David Spiegelhalter, one of our favourite experts on statistics, recently joined David Attenborough, Bill Bryson and other eminent contributors on the Royal Society's People of Science series. In the series Brian Cox discovers the scientific inspirations of Royal Society Fellows.
Wet cats don't cause umbrellas and umbrellas don't cause wet cats.
