For decades, there has been a heated debate about whether or not nuclear power plants contribute to childhood cancer in their respective neighbourhoods, with statisticians testifying on both sides. The present paper points to some flaws in the pro-arguments, taking a recent study prepared for...

The article discusses various statistical peculiarities such as heavy tails and volatility clustering which set financial time series apart from other time series in economics. It shows that these peculiarities affect the null distributions of various efficiency test. It also shows that stock...