Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician) The Statistician joined the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society as its Series D from the journal of the Institute of ...

Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for people ignoring simple solutions to statistical problems, making them hard to solve. This can have serious ...

The paper presents a discussion on the compound statistical decision problem. The non-sequential decision problem is described generally, and a simple example of a particular compound rule is given.

The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...

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