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The Indecisive Statistics Professor - with Chris Oates
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:47:56
Publish Date: 2025-07-15 16:32:29
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Chris Oates is a professor of statistics at Newcastle University - he got there despite being somewhat indecisive about his career.

This episode was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust, a UK-based organisation which funds ambitious blue skies research across various disciplines - https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk

Professor Oates was the recipient of prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize - https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/philip-leverhulme-prize-winners-2023

See a video with Professor Oates on Numberphile describing the Stein Paradox - https://youtu.be/FUQwijSDzg8

Chris Oates webpage - https://oates.work

Numberphile is supported by Jane Street - https://www.numberphile.com/jane-street

Thanks also to Ben Delo.

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