The news is full of widely (and wildly) varying estimates of the scale and scope of human trafficking. This is partly because vulnerable individuals are often hidden and are therefore hard to count.

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 172, No. 2 (Apr., 2009), pp. 339-360 (22 pages) Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting ...

Last week, quantitative minded people everywhere cheered as analysis trumped gut. Nate Silver’s predictions about the Electoral College proved precise and far more accurate than those who insisted the ...

A contact process first posed as a random mapping problem is discussed together with a model for the spread of a rumour through an archaic telephone system. Snowball sampling and the well-known ...