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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