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Who do you trust?
Statisticians welcome a call to make official statistics independent - but can it really be done in one hour?
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Helping men with early prostate cancer
A new online tool developed with the help of statisticians enables patients to make informed treatment choices.
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Plus advent calendar door #3: How to evaluate a medical treatment
It's the time of the year for cough sweets, flu medication and paracetamol. But how do we know these and other medicines really work?
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Clearing the air: Making indoor spaces COVID safe
New research shows that ventilation is crucial and that masks are effective.
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Keeping people safe at large events
How can sporting events, concerts, or festivals be kept safe in the face of rising COVID-19 infections?
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Maths in a minute: Utility theory
A hundred pounds is a lot more to someone who's poor than to a millionaire. But how do you measure such differences? Utility theory has the answer.
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What is financial mathematics?
Tim Johnson was drawn into financial maths, not through an interest in finance, but because he was interested in making good decisions in the face of uncertainty. Tim explores the development of this interface between abstract mathematics and our everyday lives, and explains why a painting may only…
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Plus podcast 22, February 2010: Evaluating a medical treatment
New treatments and drugs are tested extensively before they come on the market using randomised controlled trials (RCTs). We talk to David Spiegelhalter (Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk), Sheila Bird (Professor at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit), and Nigel Hawkes (journalist and director of Straight Statistics).
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Since herd immunity will protect us all, why do I need to get vaccinated?
Because the vaccine may not stop transmission of the virus.
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Post-14 post-Smith
A UK government inquiry into maths education has the statistics community worried.
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Maths in a minute: Very big and very small numbers
The way we talk about numbers affects the decisions people make - so think carefully about what you say!