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Volume 10, Issue 1: February 2013

Available online to Royal Statistical Society and American Statistical Association members and personal subscribers from the Wiley Online Library Web site (members: please log in first at My RSS, then click on 'My Publications' to view your list of publications and be taken through to the Wiley website).
Detailed issue content can also be found at the publisher's website.


This latest issue is freely available (throughout 2013 only) at the publisher's website.

Features

Peace on Earth?: The future of internal armed conflict
Håvard Hegre

Costing conservation
Donal McCarthy

The effects of low-dose radiation: Soviet science, the nuclear industry – and independence?
Anders Pape Møller and Timothy A. Mousseau

Seven in a row?: The Tour de France and the likelihood of Lance
David Oliver Kasdan

International Year of Statistics: It's the International Year of Statistics!
Ron Wasserstein

Significance International Year of Statistics pull-out poster

Young Statisticians Writing Competition: Celebrate the International Year of Statistics in 2013 by writing with Significance!
Kerry Dwan, Laura Gray and Julian Champkin

Dr Fisher's casebook: Take a chance on me

  Focus:
Why do we perceive logarithmically?
Lav R. Varshney and John Z. Sun

A life in statistics
Nathan Yau
Robert Grant

Data mine
Richard Price, Bayes' theorem, and God
Martyn Hooper

Graphic
Laconic History of the World, by Martin Elmer
MapHugger

Book Reviews
Sandlot Stats: Learning Statistics with Baseball - Reviewed by Graham Wheeler

Statistics and Scientific Method: An Introduction for Students and Researchers - Reviewed by Tom King

Health Care Reform and Globalisation: The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective - Reviewed by Seema Patel

Taking Sudoku Seriously: The Math behind the World’s Most Popular Pencil Puzzle - Reviewed by Nicola Tilt

Variations
When will we see people of negative height?
Patrik Perlman

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