Statistics is for statisticians

By Valentin Amrhein

No, I’m not a statistician. I’m one of those biologists who, for decades, misused null hypothesis significance testing for testing hypotheses.

Recently, I don’t even do a lot of statistical analyses on my own. As soon as it gets a little complicated, but often also if it seems trivial, I’m reaching out to a statistician who will likely help if I ask persistently enough.

I really wonder how people can do research and publish papers without having a statistician on board. But obviously it does happen. Read more here

Live Streaming event of the SSS

We are pleased to announce the three online events of the SSS, in live streaming here.

CO2 vs CO19

The CO2 vs CO19 project equips schools with CO2 traffic lights. The pupils not only learn correct ventilation behaviour, but also acquire data literacy. An exercise to understand the knowledge pyramid using the CO2 traffic light is described here.
The project focuses on CO2 measurement in rooms with an integrated alarm that calls for ventilation if the CO2 content in the room is too high. Contact person: Christian Ruiz

winner of the Lambert Award 2021

The winner of the Lambert Award 2021 is Sebastian Engelke for his contributions in the fields of extreme value theory and graphical models.

Sebastian Engelke was born in 1986, in Germany. He obtained a PhD in Mathematics from University of Goettingen in 2013. Since then he has been working in Switzerland, first at EPFL and University of Lausanne, and since 2018 at University of Geneva. Sebastian Engelke is currently Associate professor at the Research Center for Statistics of the University of Geneva.

His plenary talk given at the Swiss Statistical Meeting in Lugano 2021 can be downloaded here.