Statistics Canada has to correct the census results from thousands of Canadians after finding an error in its system that reported unusually high increases in the ...

Statistics Finland said on Thursday that it had made a persistent error in calculating inflation figures since the autumn of 2022, resulting in reported figures that ...

The U.K.’s statistics agency said it has identified an error affecting calculations of consumer-price inflation, raising new questions about the reliability of its ...

A senior federal prosecutor within the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia acknowledged Sunday that he presented inaccurate information at a community meeting regarding the expansion ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s official statistics agency on Thursday postponed the imminent ...

Last month in Points of Significance, we showed how samples are used to estimate population statistics. We emphasized that, because of chance, our estimates had an uncertainty. This month we focus on ...

It's possible to calculate the standard error in MATLAB by running a one-line command. Standard error is a measurement of the variability of a data set and how ...

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and ...

Liberty Vittert is a member and ambassador of the Royal Statistical Society. The views in this article are entirely her own. What value do statistics really have when it comes to describing events in ...