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Interpreting the 2024 National Violent Crime Statistics

What are the trends in the 2024 national crime statistics?

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crime statisticsSharon LohrDecember 30, 2025
SLOP: Word of the Year

The editors of Merriam Webster chose “slop” as their word of the year. How does their definition relate to surveys?

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Sharon LohrDecember 22, 2025
Vital Statistics During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Inaccurate death statistics in 1918 hindered responses to the pandemic. How have death statistics changed since then, and how might they be further improved?

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Sharon LohrNovember 30, 2025
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Statistical Evidence

The 1918 influenza epidemic spurred research in statistical methodology for clinical trials. But is there currently backsliding to a reliance on anecdotal evidence?

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healthSharon LohrSeptember 24, 2025
What is Your Inflation Rate?

The official annual inflation rate as of July 2025 is 2.7%, but the prices of goods and services I purchased in July 2024 rose by 5.3%. Why the difference?

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improving lifeSharon LohrAugust 25, 2025
Benjamin Franklin and Exponential Growth

On this July 4, we look at just one of Franklin’s many contributions to statistical science: his writings on population growth.

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Sharon LohrJuly 4, 2025
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