In Australia, figures recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the proportion of university graduates in professional and managerial positions is decreasing.
About 13, 000 students from around the world will start taking an online statistics course at Wesleyan Universityin Connecticut next week using SAS On-Demand and the R language.
Gui Becker and Kelly Zamudio from Cornell Universityinthe US analysed statistics on amphibian decline in Brazil, Costa Rica and Australia, and found that chytrid appears to do more damage in pristine forests than in lands that have been cleared or otherwise modified by human hands.
Wells, a biostatistician at Cornell University, has another explanation, chalking up occasional sloppiness instatistics to the pressure to publish early and often.
Katz was previously an adjunct professor of statistics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he taught classes in business mathematics applications.
The profound concerns of the UK Statistics Authority at this kind of ministerial behaviour are reflected in a lecture Sir Michael gave at Cambridge University last year.