David Spiegelhalter

Department of Statistics

Department of Statistics

The Department of Statistics at Oxford is a world leader in research including computat...

Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures

Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures

The Sidney Ball Memorial Lectures were established after the First World War in memory ...

Trust the Evidence

Trust the Evidence

A new podcast series from the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford,...

Maths + Cancer

Maths + Cancer

A podcast exploring the role of mathematics and statistics in cancer research – and the...

Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
2. Communicating the evidence with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter	Vicky Neale and David Spiegelhalter explore the role of statisticians in communicating risk to the public, and how patients can be empowered to engage with clinicians when weighing up the benefits and risks of treatment.	Vicky Neale, David Spiegelhalter	12 December, 2022
Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Panel Session	The Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Lecture was followed by a Panel Session with Professor Deborah Ashby, Professor David Cox and Professor David Spiegelhalter. The Panel was chaired by Professor Jennifer Rogers about the role of statistics in society	Deborah Ashby, David Cox, David Spiegelhalter	5 February, 2021
Florence Nightingale and the politicians’ pigeon holes: using data for the good of society	Professor Deborah Ashby, President of the RSS, gives the 2020 Florence Nightingale lecture.	Deborah Ashby, David Cox, David Spiegelhalter	7 January, 2021
Why should we have trust in numbers? Making evidence more reliable, and empowering people to check it	Professor David Spiegelhalter, , Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge delivers the annual Sidney Ball lecture at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford	David Spiegelhalter	2 November, 2017
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter	Professor Carl Heneghan, Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, speaks to Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, about the importance of medical statistics.	David Spiegelhalter, Carl Heneghan	28 March, 2017