In this article we analyse the causes for some complaints about statistical education. We also present some suggestions how to improve the situation. The deficiencies mentioned are: <UnorderedList Mark="Bullet"> <ItemContent> Job candidates which have passed a study in Economics reveal a substantial weakness or inability to deal with...</itemcontent></unorderedlist>

The emergence of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought with it a sharp focus on public health services and health systems as well as shed light on the chronic lack of capacity to manage emerging public health risks. Climate change further exacerbates this challenge. In...

The early COVID-19 pandemic literature focused on the conflict between lives and livelihoods. But cross-country evidence reveals that across countries high mortality rates were often associated with large gross domestic product contractions. This paper shows that the presumed trade-off was...

The development of new and better methods for preventing and managing natural disasters requires a variety of different data sets, covering the range from referenced data, e.g. topographic data and digital elevation models, to various kinds of thematic data, e.g. data about soil, vegetation and...