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Embracing Uncertainty
As some readers may be aware, there is currently much debate amongst professional statisticians on the topic of ‘statistical significance’ and the use of p-values – earlier this year the journal The...
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Developing the Next Generation of Data Scientists
On the 3rd of September, our Acting MD Sarah was invited to attend a Data Science Education outreach event at the University of Exeter, to speak to teenagers about what it’s like to work as a real...
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Tamba Publish World-First Report
Earlier this year, the Twins & Multiple Births Association (Tamba) published their world-first report on maternity unit engagement for twins and multiple births. Select were pleased to provide...
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Assessing Questionnaire Validity
Questionnaire surveys are measurement instruments. While scientific measurement instruments measure physical properties like velocity or weight, questionnaire surveys often measure respondents’...
View Article100 Years of Education Trials: No Significant Difference?
Last week, Jo attended an event celebrating the centenary of the first reported randomised controlled trial (RCT) in education – “100 years of education trials: no significant difference?”. One of the...
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Using Data to Drive Your Business
Earlier this month, one of our senior consultants Jo attended a conference on “Using Data to Drive Your Business”, hosted by the Exeter Analytics Network (EAN). The EAN comprises a group of leaders of...
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Approaches to Model Validation
It’s relatively easy to build a model with some data, but part of the expertise involved in a useful piece of analysis is the ability to perform model validation. Model validation gives us a way to...
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Sarah Wins Science Council CSci CPD Award 2019
Congratulations to our Acting MD Sarah on winning the Science Council’s Chartered Scientist (CSci) Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Award 2019! The awards celebrate outstanding professional...
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Do School Performance Tables Really Measure School Performance?
According to the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, the latest research shows that “league tables punish and reward the wrong schools”. Last month they published the results of a study which showed that...
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Select Sleuths Save Framed Detective!
Last week the Select team ventured out of the comfort and safety of our offices at Oxygen House, leaving behind our statistical codes and entering an office full of cryptic codes and puzzles, and a...
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2019 Statistics of the Year: 58% and 72.6 years
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) has just announced the winners of its annual Statistics of the Year competition. “Statistics have a remarkable power in their ability to help us understand the key...
View ArticleWomen in Data UK Conference
Last month, our consultant Sally was thrilled to have the opportunity to attend the Women in Data UK conference. Women in Data (WiD) UK is the UK’s largest female data professional network and, with...
View ArticleCapturing the Decade in a Statistic
In our last blog post, we discussed the winner of the Royal Statistical Society’s annual Statistics of the Year competition. With the start of 2020 and the end of a decade, the RSS also released their...
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Assessing the Diagnostic Accuracy of a Dyslexia Screening Tool
The Challenge Dyslexia is a learning difficulty estimated to affect up to 1 in 10 of the UK population. It can cause people difficulty with learning to read and write, comprehension of written...
View ArticleWhat the A Level Grade Scandal Can Show Us about Algorithmic Bias
Recently, we have seen a particularly visible example of artificial intelligence make the news. UK A level grades were calculated using an algorithm since students were unable to sit exams due to the...
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COVID-19 Vaccines: What Does 90% Effective Mean?
In the past few weeks, we’ve heard from multiple pharmaceutical companies that interim results of their Covid-19 vaccines are showing surprisingly good results. Pfizer and BioNTech announced their...
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What’s in a name: Statistics vs Data Science
Whilst the Select team are very much missing working together in the office, there have been positives in the move to working more remotely. One of these is that many meetings and gatherings have moved...
View ArticleOxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine: Why the Uncertainty?
As we reported in our previous blog, the preliminary results from phase III trials of COVID-19 vaccines have been reported in the media. The vaccine developed and trialled by Pfizer and BioNTech is...
View ArticleThe Academy of Medical Sciences Diversity Report
The Academy of Medical Sciences plays a hugely important role in supporting and advancing the UK’s biomedical and health research and its translation into benefits for society. Select were thrilled to...
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LMS Women in Mathematics Day 2021
Last week, our Senior Statistical Consultant Sarah was delighted to be invited to give a talk at the London Mathematics Society (LMS) Women in Mathematics Day 2021, to speak to mathematicians of all...
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