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Star Wars Characters Who Should Have Been Statisticians. Or Not.

May statistical principles be with you.

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Sharon LohrMay 4, 2025
Kirstine Smith, Statistical Pioneer

One of her papers created a new research area in statistics. Another spurred the debate on the foundations of statistical inference. Who was Kirstine Smith?

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history of statisticsSharon LohrApril 22, 2025
How Many People Attend Religious Services? Part 2

Can we use alternative data sources to produce better estimates of religious service attendance?

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Sharon LohrMarch 9, 2025
How Many People Attend Religious Services? Part 1

How do polls measure religious service attendance, and how accurate are the estimates?

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Sharon LohrJanuary 13, 2025
Reviewing the 2023 National Violent Crime Statistics

The annual 2023 crime statistics have been released. Homicide is down, and it appears that other types of violent crime have returned to pre-pandemic levels.

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crime statisticsSharon LohrOctober 5, 2024
How AI Created a Nonexistent Statistician

I tested how an AI system would evaluate the contributions of a prominent survey statistician. It created a new researcher.

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Sharon LohrSeptember 23, 2024
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