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Kevin McConway is Professor of Applied Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The Open University.

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Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a viewCreative Commons Image Clearly Ambiguous under CC-BY licence

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

12 April 2011

A lawsuit over a cold remedy has forced the US Supreme Court into deciding what might be statistically significant.  Read more : Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a view

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By Professor Gary Slapper (The Open University), Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

12 April 2011

With clean-up rates and reoffending numbers, discussions of crime often circle back to statistics. But are these 'facts' really such reliable witnesses?  Read more : Statistics and the law

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Darwin and statistics Featuring: video, Creative Commons Image Ex_Libris_gul via Flickr

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

19 March 2009

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...  Read more : Darwin and statistics

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OU on the BBC: More or Less - Inside interviewBBC

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University), Tim Harford (Guest)

26 October 2007

Tim Harford became presenter of More Or Less in October 2007 - and one of his first tasks was to be grilled by Kevin McConway,...  Read more : OU on the BBC: More or Less - Inside interview

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AveragesBBC

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

01 May 2007

We often quote averages, but do we really know what they are? Kevin McConway explains the difference between mean, median and mode.  Read more : Averages

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EpidemiologyBBC

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

19 April 2007

Kevin McConway describes the study of epidemiology and looks at the factors influencing outcome and interpretations  Read more : Epidemiology

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Counting the crisis - in the UKProduction team

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

08 August 2006

If you put HIV AIDS statistics UK into Google, it returns a list of about 173,000 web pages - over three pages for each of...  Read more : Counting the crisis - in the UK

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Performance indicators, targets and league tablesBBC

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

14 June 2006

Do performance league tables really guide us to making informed choices about health and education? Kevin McConway suggest we start by asking what is actually...  Read more : Performance indicators, targets and league tables

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Monty Hall problemUsed with permission

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

21 December 2005

A classic game show conundrum - should you stick with your choice, or change your mind?  Read more : Monty Hall problem

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Numbers In BusinessBBC

By Professor Kevin McConway (The Open University)

21 June 2005

There's more than pounds and dollars at the heart of how business uses numbers, says Kevin McConway.  Read more : Numbers In Business

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Research [10]

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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).

Worthington, Jenny; Silvertown, Jonathan; Cook, Laurence; Cameron, Robert; Dodd, Mike; Greenwood, Richard; McConway, Kevin and Skelton, Peter (2011). Evolution MegaLab: a case study in citizen science methods. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (Early View).

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.

Silvertown, Jonathan; McConway, Kevin; Gowing, David; Dodd, Mike; Fay, Michael F.; Joseph, Jeffrey A. and Dolphin, Konrad (2006). Absence of phylogenetic signal in the niche structure of meadow plant communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273(1582), pp. 39–44.

Davies, Celia; Anand, Paul; Artigas, Lidia; Holloway, Jacky; McConway, Kevin; Newman, Janet; Storey, John and Thompson, Grahame (2005). Links between Governance, Incentives and Outcomes: a Review of the Literature. National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D (NCCSDO), London, UK.

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Statistics and the law

Comment posted by ms25532

03 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... Read more : Statistics and the law

Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a view

Comment posted by ag8756

02 May 2012

can you define "many" please professor? Read more : Statistically significant: The US Supreme Court takes a view

Smoking Cigarettes

Comment posted by zz880378

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... Read more : Smoking Cigarettes

Epidemiology

Comment posted by zz901599

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... Read more : Epidemiology

Biography

Read Professor Kevin McConway’s biography.

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.

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