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Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a view

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 12 Apr 2011
By Professor Kevin McConway
A lawsuit over a cold remedy has forced the US Supreme Court into deciding what might be statistically significant.
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Statistics and the law

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Introductory Level Duration 10 mins Updated 12 Apr 2011
By Professor Gary Slapper, Professor Kevin McConway
With clean-up rates and reoffending numbers, discussions of crime often circle back to statistics. But are these 'facts' really such reliable witnesses?
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Darwin and statistics

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 19 Mar 2009
By Professor Kevin McConway
Little did Darwin realise, as he puzzled over the numerical data he collected, that he was laying the foundations of statistics. Kevin McConway tells the...
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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Inside interview

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Introductory Level Duration 30 mins Updated 26 Oct 2007
By Professor Kevin McConway, Tim Harford
Tim Harford became presenter of More Or Less in October 2007 - and one of his first tasks was to be grilled by Kevin McConway,...
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Averages

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Introductory Level Duration 5 mins Updated 01 May 2007
By Professor Kevin McConway
We often quote averages, but do we really know what they are? Kevin McConway explains the difference between mean, median and mode.
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Statistics and the law

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Comment posted by ms25532 on 3 May 2012
The last bit of this article is a good example of how to mislead with the selective use of statistics! We are told 'five out of ten people discharged from custody in 1992 were reconvicted after two years....It costs about £36,000 to keep a prisoner in prison for a year'....
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Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a view

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Comment posted by ag8756 on 2 May 2012
can you define "many" please professor?
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Smoking Cigarettes

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Comment posted by zz880378 on 16 Apr 2012
Smoking Cigarettes is always show the bad effects on the body. There are many people are addicted to smoking and this smoking addiction is not good for the health of the people and it will be the cause of many health issues like cancer, heart attack,coughing etc. Many people don't...
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Epidemiology

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Comment posted by zz901599 on 19 Mar 2012
I know this article is a few years old now (5) but interesting all the same, you know there would be one way of part answering some of this !! Why not goto one of the big Snooker communities like TFS or www.TheSnookerForum.com and do a survey and simply ask 3...
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Kevin McConway is Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The Open University. He teaches statistics and health studies, and researches in several areas including statistical theory, health service organisation, ecology and evolution. He has degrees in mathematics, statistics, psychology and business from the Universities of Cambridge and London and The Open University. Kevin originally comes from rural Northumberland but is now a long-term Milton Keynes resident.

Research:

Kafatos, George; Andrews, Nick; McConway, Kevin J. and Farrington, Paddy (2013). Regression models for censored serological data. Journal of Medical Microbiology (In Press).

Dallas, Nicola; Malone, Peter; Jones, Adam; Doggart, Andrew; McConway, Kevin and Rogers, Paul (2012). The results of real time brachytherapy for the management of low and intermediate risk prostate cancer in patients with prostate volumes up to 100 ml. BJU International (Early View).

Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David J.; McConway, Kevin J.; Linder, H. P. and Midgley, Guy (2012). Do niche-structured plant communities exhibit phylogenetic conservatism? A test case in an endemic clade. Journal of Ecology, 100(6), pp. 1434–1439.

Worthington, Jenny; Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Mike; Greenwood, Richard; McConway, Kevin and Skelton, Peter (2012). Evolution MegaLab: a case study in citizen science methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3(2), pp. 303–309.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Michael; McConway, Kevin; Worthington, Jennifer; Skelton, Peter; Anton, Christian; Bossdorf, Oliver; Baur, Bruno; Schilthuizen, Menno; Fontaine, Benoît; Sattmann, Helmut; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Correira, Maria; Oliveira, Cristina; Pokryszko, Beata; Ozgo, Malgorzata; Stalažs, Arturs; Gill, Eoin; Rammul, Üllar; Sólymos, Péter; Féher, Soltan and Juan, Xavier (2011). Citizen science reveals unexpected continental-scale
evolutionary change in a model organism. PLoS ONE, 6(4), e18927.

Araya, Yoseph N.; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David J.; McConway, Kevin J.; Linder, H. Peter and Midgley, Guy (2011). A fundamental, eco-hydrological basis for niche segregation in plant communities. New Phytologist, 189(1), pp. 253–258.

Araya, Yoseph; Silvertown, Jonathan; Gowing, David; McConway, Kevin; Linder, Peter and Midgley, Guy (2010). Variation in δ13C among species and sexes in the family Restionaceae along a fine-scale hydrological gradient. Austral Ecology, 35(7), pp. 818–824.

Araya, Y. N.; Silvertown, J.; Linder, H. P; Gowing, D. J.; Midgley, G. F. and McConway, K. J. (2008). Evolution of hydrological niches in Restionaceae: a project update. In: Mucina, L.; Kalwij, J. M.; Smith, V. R.; Chytry, M.; White, P. S.; Cilliers, S. S.; Pillar, V. D.; Zobel, M. and Sun, I-Fang eds. Frontiers of Vegetation Science - An evolutionary angle. Somerset West: Keith Phillips Images, pp. 15–16.

Fréville, Hélène; McConway, Kevin; Dodd, Mike and Silvertown, Jonathan (2007). Prediction of extinction in plants: interaction of extrinsic threats and life history traits. Ecology, 88(10), pp. 2662–2672.

Silvertown, Jonathan; Dodd, Mike; Gowing, David; Lawson, Clare and McConway, Kevin (2006). Phylogeny and the hierarchical organization of plant diversity. Ecology, 87(7, Sup), S39-S49.

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