Young Writers Competition: GUESTimation: Breaking the deadlock on wedding guest lists. Issue 4 (20th August 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vukcevic, Damjan
• Is Part Of: Significance. Volume 10:Issue 4(2013:Dec.)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 48
• Publication Date: 2013-08-20
• Subjects: Statistics -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Periodicals; 001.422
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2013.00687.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-9705

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Earlier this year, together with the Young Statisticians Group of the RSS, <italic>Significance</italic> ran its second Young Writers Competition. A selection of runners‐up will be published on these pages and on our website, http://www.significancemagazine.com, over the coming months. Here we present the winner. <bold>Damjan Vukcevic</bold> talks us through independent variables, probability distributions, and robustness of models, all in the context of that nightmare that most of us encounter at some time in our lives – whom should we invite to our wedding?</p> </abstract>