"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." – H.G. Wells ...

Patients were three times more likely to be diagnosed with atrial fibrillation – an abnormal heart rhythm that can increase the risk of having a stroke. They were almost twice as likely to be ...

So far there have been 85 matches played, 57 of which were correctly predicted, a success rate of 67.1%. Here are the predictions for last week’s games. Here are the predictions for Week 12. The ...

Here are the predictions for Week 3. The prediction is my estimated expected points difference with a positive margin being a win to the home team, and a negative margin a win to the away team.

Here are the predictions for Round 1. The prediction is my estimated expected points difference with a positive margin being a win to the home team, and a negative margin a win to the away team.

You can see the abnormalities are a bit more severe in the symptomatic group, but not enough to make a useful diagnostic test ...

Every two years (since 1988) there is at least one round of stories about condoms at the Olympics (here’s a couple of past StatsChat posts). Many athletes would have the funds and general executive ...

Via the pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe, and also various media outlets, there is a new cancer study that randomised patients with lung cancer to get their immunotherapy infusions in the morning or ...

Various sources are telling us that coffee and tea consumption can lower the risk of dementia (the Independent is clickbaiting it to “the common drinks linked with reducing risk of dementia“, and ...

Here are the predictions for Week 1. The prediction is my estimated expected points difference with a positive margin being a win to the home team, and a negative margin a win to the away team.

A story in the NYTimes and also an unpaywalled story at 404 Media report a study of chatbots for medical advice, saying they are Bad and Not Good. The research study is published in Nature Medicine.

Unless you have been living in a cave* you will probably be aware that the lead performer was one Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, a Puerto Rican rapper who performs as “Bad Bunny”. The story is ...