Chapter 5 argued that substantial improvements in the cost-effectiveness of operational testing can be achieved by test planning and state-of-the-art statistical methods for test design. It was also ...

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Head of UK Statistics Authority makes second public plea for clarity from government The head of the UK Statistics Authority has accused the government of continuing to mislead the public over the ...

Coronavirus has changed everything. Make sense of it all with the Waugh Zone, our evening politics briefing. Sign up now. The UK’s statistics watchdog has warned Matt Hancock that government figures ...

While that might sound a good thing, the truth is a bit more complicated. For starters, not everyone needs to get tested, as these gene mutations are still fairly rare, affecting only about 1 in 400 ...

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...