Tag: statistics

Are Norwegians really the sickest in the world?

When people from Sweden or other countries with lower sickness absence rates than Norwegians start working in Norway, their absence becomes similar to ours. What’s going on with Norway?

Researcher: Never take health and lifestyle advice from centenarians

When we only look at those who survived in their generation, we get a skewed view of reality.

Can Covid-19 lead to poorer memory? A study of over 100,000 individuals faces criticism

When participants assess their own memory, they may think it is worse than it is.

These are the most common negative life experiences that people go through

Statistics Norway has investigated which serious life events people go through. Life can be hard on all of us at some point, but negative life events do not affect all groups in society equally.

Here’s how Norway’s public health institute will figure out what to do if the coronavirus flares up again

A new mathematical model used by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) is like a tiny laboratory inside a computer, says the head of the institute’s modelling group.

Data on how Norwegians move around allow for a finetuned model of calculating the spread of coronavirus

But how accurate are these calculations, and what exactly can they be used for?

Slightly more poor people in Norway

Norway’s proportion of low-income families and households is growing year by year.

Charles-Joseph Minard’s map of Napoleon’s flawed Russian campaign: An ever-current classic

The world has become more peaceful

Although the war in Syria is in its eighth year, statisticians have established that the world is becoming increasingly peaceful.

Why I sometimes wish I were a linguist

Uncertain future for fraudsters

Fraudsters who cheat on their taxes, launder money or con insurance companies are facing uncertain times. New statistical methods are increasing the likelihood that they will be caught.

Avoids ship disasters with advanced statistics

The chance of major ship disasters at sea can be reduced by statistical methods. The trick is to interpret the large amounts of data streaming in from the many sensors in the ship, making it possible to sound the alarm on time.

How can data visualization have a political impact?

Spider webs and other sources of ideas

Listen to the sound of data

A good reader discovers what he does not understand

Sublime Visualisations of Immensely Big Data

Do graphs and charts make you a wiser person?

Biologists often numbed by numbers

Biologists often find their analytical aptitude falls short of the mark when dealing with complicated data. It can mean that their research strays off target too.