Nathan Green's S word
Statistician Nathan Green demystifies the basic tools of statistics and explains how to use them to make sense of life's data
How to bet on climate change
Pascal's Wager is more useful for deciding which way to go on climate change than on, say, religion
Confidence intervals take some of the luck out of exam results
While certainty will always remain elusive, this statistical tool can help to reduce variation in the marking of school exams
Boost your size with meta-analysis
Nathan Green: Combining the results of several related studies – if done well – can improve the statistical heft of your conclusions
Can we trust a model that predicts traffic chaos during the Olympics?
Nathan Green: Models can help unravel complexity and predict the future, but they're only as good as their data and the people who built them
Correlation is not causation
Repeat after me, correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation, correlation is not causation …
When the moon is full, sink your teeth into a p-value
Nathan Green: Are crime rates really higher when there's a full moon? That's a question for the statistical werewolves among you
Celebrating the average: means, medians and modes
Averages are incredibly useful because they represent a complex set of figures as a single number. But there are several types of average, each with advantages and disadvantages in particular situations
How biased is your sample?
Learn to love the S word: statistics
