Spotlight

In conversation with Edinburgh alumnus Benjamin Skuse, Professor Cathie Sudlow OBE, Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology, discusses opportunities for statisticians to tap into whole population health data from across the UK.

In the second of our series on member profiles, Centre for Statistics Co-Director Valeria Skafida interviews Lindsay Paterson, Professor Emeritus of Education Policy.

Edinburgh alumnus Benjamin Skuse interviews Professor Simon Wood, Chair of Computational Statistics.

In the first of our series on member profiles, Centre for Statistics former Director Miguel de Carvalho interviews Colin Aitken, Honorary Professorial Fellow and retired Professor of Forensic Statistics.

By co-developing online data science tutorials and automated feedback mechanisms with former students, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel from the Centre for Statistics has shown that first-year undergraduates can still receive high-quality learning experiences in the midst of a pandemic.

Furnished by the Centre for Statistics with a talented core team, and given the freedom to tap into specialist expertise from the wider School of Mathematics, the Statistical Consultancy Unit is prepared for any challenge the world can throw at it.

When hepatologist Tom Bird realised current methods of liver cancer detection were leading to misdiagnosis, he called in statisticians from the Centre for Statistics to help him remedy the situation

Statistics is central to gaining insights from gravitational wave events, as the contributions from University of Edinburgh statistician Jonathan Gair, and physicists Andy Lawrence and David Homan reveal.

Trace amounts of cocaine on banknotes can tell a surprisingly rich and telling story about the notes’ history, as Amy Wilson from the Centre for Statistics has found out.