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Author(s) -
Briscoe Simon
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00263.x
Subject(s) - scrutiny , head (geology) , reputation , task (project management) , statistics , computer science , operations research , history , political science , management , law , mathematics , economics , geology , geomorphology
Sir Michael Scholar, new Chair of the new Statistics Board, is spending the winter preparing the ground before being thrust into the full glare of parliamentary and media scrutiny as he sets about the task of turning around the reputation of official statistics. Simon Briscoe talked to him.