Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson
For much of the Covid-19 pandemic so far, English Premier League football has been played behind closed doors, without fans in the stands. Alan Jackson considers what effect this may have had on so-called "home advantage". ...
Annie Herbert,Gareth Griffith,Gibran Hemani et al.
Annie Herbert et al.
When non-random sampling collides with our understanding of Covid-19 risk, we must be careful not to draw incorrect conclusions about cause and effect. By Annie Herbert, Gareth Griffith, Gibran Hemani and Luisa Zuccolo. ...
Julia Lane
Julia Lane
Julia Lane calls for a new, more democratic, public data infrastructure. © 2020 The Royal Statistical Society.
Samuel R Neal,Cindy Zheng
Samuel R Neal
What can we learn about the coronavirus pandemic from text-mining the titles of journal papers? By Samuel R. Neal and Cindy Zheng. © 2020 The Royal Stat...
Simon Schwab,Leonhard Held
Simon Schwab
The novel coronavirus has dramatically affected our daily lives in the short term. But will the pandemic change research for the better over the longer term? By Simon Schwab and Leonhard Held. ...
Dan Anderberg,Helmut Rainer,Fabian Siuda
Dan Anderberg
Victims of domestic abuse may struggle to contact the police. But they are likely to seek help on the internet. By using internet search data to measure domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer and Fabian...
Sheila M Bird
Sheila M Bird
When Sheila M. Bird agreed to participate in a Covid surveillance study, she did not realise her negative test result and personal details would be passed to NHS Test and Trace. Here, she calls for closer scrutiny of privacy policies by res...
When Covid-19 arrived in Italy in early 2020, a group of statisticians came together to provide tools to make sense of the unfolding epidemic and to counter misleading media narratives. Here, members of StatGroup-19 reflect on their work to...
Emily Prestige,Julian Stander,Yinghui Wei
Emily Prestige
UK citizens have lived through three lockdowns over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. What effect have these restrictions had on the transmission of the virus? Emily Prestige, Julian Stander and Yinghui Wei investigate. ...
The Covid communicators [0.03%]
抗疫宣传战
Timandra Harkness
Timandra Harkness
Two years ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic began, statisticians, epidemiologists and journalists around the world took up the challenge of trying to explain to the public exactly what was happening, and to draw insights from the mass of data...