Special Issue: Official statistics in Africa

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Differences among official statistics of mortality rates in Iran

Dear Editor, Death indicators and causes of death are both closely associated with socio-cultural, economic, and structural factors and determinants of health, with all of which being at the core of the planning, monitoring, and assessment of intervention programs in any healthcare system (1). In Iran, the diagnosis and official registration of deaths are carried out by two independent organiz...

Special Issue on Advances in Data Mining and Robust Statistics

The main aim of data mining is to extract knowledge from, usually very large, datasets. Data mining techniques are often applied to gain initial insights about the data and complement statistical models. This special issue focuses on the interface between data mining and statistical modelling, with special emphasis on robust statistics. Very large datasets, especially those that are machine gen...

Critically review official statistics.

Determined attempts to quantify social phenomena have allowed bureaucratic organisations to collect numerical data from increasingly diverse sources, in seemingly ever increasing volume. For many, there is a certain amount of comfort to be had from columns of figures, bar charts and percentages and we take for granted that statistical data will be derived from sources such as census forms, tax ...