THE contemporary population of the United States seems to have not only a taste but also a distinct genius for statistical research. It does not follow, however, that American mathematicians have at ...

In The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, published in March by the Harvard University Press, Stephen Stigler identifies seven fundamental principles of statistics, a largely interdisciplinary field ...

On Monday evening, Stephen Stigler, the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Statistics, discussed his book The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom at the Seminary ...

In many realms of science today, “statistical wisdom” seems to be in short supply. Misuse of statistics in scientific research has contributed substantially to the widespread “reproducibility crisis” ...