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LATEST ISSUE

September 2026 volume 23 issue 5

NOTEBOOK

News

World Cup, agentic AI in healthcare, Rousseeuw Prize, Spain’s birth data and more

Puzzle

Moriarty’s fiendish problem. Plus the solution to “Holmes acquires a horseless carriage”

Editorial

Moving and grooving

PERSPECTIVES

Positive publication bias

Better than it’s been made to sound?

Improvisation for statisticians

How the actor’s craft can help us think on our feet

Leadership

Six more steps to take you out of the backroom and into the boardroom

Bad stats

This issue: the dubious statistical reasoning used by US courts against federal workers

Cartoon & From the archive

Letters

What do you think?

Crossword

A good start, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword

Questions answered

New editorial board member Sinjini Mitra talks about her life and work

STATSCOMM

Book review

Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works by Helen Pearson, reviewed by Kevin McConway

FEATURES

Album closing tracks

Is there a recognised pattern in the way artists say goodbye?

Radiation and risk statistics

Returning to Fukushima

Climate data adjustments

An explainer

Novel statistical methods

Examples of natural experiments, citizen science and changepoint detection

The procurement pioneer

How a data scientist made supplier selection easier for his company

PROFILES
Genichi Taguchi

A celebration of the Japanese engineer and statistical innovator

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Significance is a bimonthly magazine for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. It aims to communicate in an entertaining, thought-provoking, and non-technical way the practical use of statistics.