Can a Half-Cent Tax on Drink Save Lives?

A recent study appears to confirm a long-held conviction about alcohol abuse and driving while under the influence: If you increase the price of alcohol, you will end up saving lives. The twist to the latest peer-reviewed research, which appeared in the American...

Why We Need a Statistical Revolution

My father told me the most important thing about solving a problem is to formulate it accurately, and one would think that, as statisticians, most of us would agree with that advice. Suppose we were to build a spaceship that can fly to Mars and return safely to Earth....