The term ‘official statistics’ is not usually a headline-grabber. But, around a year ago, when Nature’s news team began exploring reports of problems with the data that governments routinely collect, ...

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics ...

In the mid-2000s, Argentina’s once-reliable inflation statistics became a flashpoint for controversy. Official figures started to diverge from independent estimates. At first, the discrepancies were ...

SPAN is frequently used for nonnormally distributed data (e.g., time) as part of lean six sigma as a measure of dispersion. Add SPAN as an option to the Descriptive Statistics > Statistics > ...

I am reporting a bug related to incorrect descriptive statistics values when using "ordinal" variables. I previously indicated the same or "technically very similar" bug in JASP 0.19.2, which was ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam,” accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday removed the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures after a report showed hiring slowed in July and was much weaker in May and June ...

Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of “screen time” involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and wondered what he ...