Welcome back, everyone 👋 A new term begins—whether coursework, exams, or dissertation, we're rooting for you. Take care and reach out for support!

ESCoE will host a World Bank workshop on exploring global poverty and inequality data. This will take place at 14:00 – 16:00 on Thursday 21 May 2026 at @kingsbschool.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Find out more and register: tinyurl.com/28kerx48

Join Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yu Ang, University of Hong Kong on the 14th of April in the Leverhulme Library for a talk exploring how Four-part causal decomposition explains disparities, with robust estimators and policy insights on education’s role in mobility.

Uploaded & ready for you to watch! 📹💻 The full recording of 'Trade in Turbulent Times: Tracking Customs Evasion, Sanctions, & Tariff Effects with Trade Data' with Dr Francesca Torti at Europe House on Wednesday 25 March.🇪🇺📊 Watchback here👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqMW...

We were delighted to have Dr Francesca Torti from the European Commission 🇪🇺delivering the talk, with Dr Marta Paczos of the UK Department for Business & Trade 🇬🇧 (currently on secondment to @escoeorg.bsky.social) as our discussant. And a big thank you to our audience for taking part! 🙏

Thank you to everyone who took part in our public talk 'Trade in Turbulent Times: Tracking Customs Evasion, Sanctions, and Tariff Effects with Trade Data' yesterday evening with the Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom at Europe House.

ESCoE Research Associate Marta Paczos is speaking at this @lsedepofstatistics.bsky.social event on trade in turbulent times next Wednesday 25 March, 17:30 - 19:00. Sign up for free 👉 tinyurl.com/bde536w7

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⏰ Tomorrow! Trade in Turbulent Times at Europe House, London. Hear from Dr Francesca Torti (European Commission) and Dr Marta Paczos (DBT / ESCoE) on customs evasion, sanctions, & US tariff effects. Free to attend + drinks reception 🎟 5.30pm 👉 lnkd.in/eqK68G6h

🎉 New Student Award! 🎉 Head of Department's Commendation honors UG & MSc students excelling in academics, leadership, service, integrity. 💷 Prize: £500 #LSEStatistics #LSE #StudentAchievements #Leadership #AcademicExcellence

🌍🍷 Upcoming talk & drinks reception at Europe House | Trade in turbulent times: Tracking customs evasion, sanctions, and tariff effects with trade data 📅 25 March 2026 🕠 5:30 pm - 7 pm 📍 Europe House, Smith Square, London, SW1P 3EU 🇪🇺 Sign up here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eqK68G6h

📊 Department of Statistics seminar — 20 March, 2–3pm Join Dr Balabdaoui as she explains how can we run linear regression without matched data? Discover a new deconvolution approach (DLSE) and its key results. LSE COL 1.06 2pm - 3pm

🧐 Check out our Department research blog, 'The Measure of it' and explore a growing body of original and accessible content. Keep your eyes peeled for new posts each month! 👉 https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/the-measure-of-it-blog

What an evening! Last week's Statistics Alumni Mixer brought together 21 alumni and our brilliant students for a night of networking, stories, and great conversation. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us. The Department of Statistics community never fails to impress. 🎉

🎉 Amara Otero Salgado, MSc Data Science student and Women's Officer @LSE, secured campus-wide free period products approval! #LSE #StudentImpact

🚨 DSQC Conference + Datathon on 14 March 2026! Join industry talks, student projects & Datathon finals. Sign up now 👉 https://forms.gle/2H5fZFg3oA2sz3oz7

Are you wondering how to forecast inflation? Join us for a fascinating talk with Michael Wolf as he explores the hedged random forest and its implications for analysing inflation. LSE COL 1.06 2pm - 3pm

We hosted actuarial expert Graeme Charters for our final Statistics Insight Series session, sharing key insights on modelling in risk environments.

In our Distributed Computing course, Dr Marcos Ennes Barreto welcomed Vinay Kathard, MSc Health Data Science grad, sharing real-world health data insights.

Reminder: How do customs declarations and trade data shape EU policy? Join Dr Francesca Torti at Leverhulme Library, 1-2pm, to explore JRC's trade insights. 🎓 Open to all LSE staff and students.

Great session with Dr Francesca Torti on how customs data shapes EU trade policy and strategic insights. Thank you to all who came

Actuarial expert Graeme Charters explores how models shape real-world decisions — and where their limits lie. Mar 2.8 Marshall Building 3pm - 5pm

🚀 New Technical Report "Kernel Integrated R²: A Measure of Dependence" on arXiv, a novel kernel-based dependence measure in stats and ML by Zoltán Szabó, Pouya Roudaki, Shakeel Gavioli-Akilagun, Florian Kalinke & Mona Azadkia

Join us for a seminar on likelihood-free “repro samples” + Fisher inversion: a new framework for rigorous inference with mixed discrete/continuous, irregular data in modern data science. LSE COL 1.06 2-3pm

Whether you’re a student, academic, alumnus, or industry partner, our events offer opportunities to connect, learn, & explore the latest developments in statistical science. Explore our programme on our Department webpages here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/events

📘 New book by Alexander Krauss at LSE: The Engine of Scientific Discovery explores innovation via Nobel Prize stats. 🔗 Learn more: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197829790.001.0001 #LSE #Statistics #ScientificDiscovery #Research #DataScience

We’re delighted to congratulate Dr Mingwei Lin on being recommended for the award of her PhD for her thesis, Limit order markets and Bayesian learning. We’re also pleased to share that she continues to contribute to the Department as an LSE Fellow. Well done, Dr Lin, a fantastic achievement!

Join us for a presentation with Dr Francesca Torti, who will explore how the Joint Research Centre’s framework is used to track the EU’s imports and exports, & why these insights matter for trade policy. 📍 Leverhulme Library | 1-2pm 🎓 Open to all LSE staff and students

Thank you for joining our Statistics Insight Series with Thrinayani Ramakrishnan! Discover how actuarial skills drive sustainability. 📺 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H80z6PQTkU

LSE Department of Statistics students took part in HackEurope Dublin — the largest student-led hackathon in Europe. Team Beavers built a multi-agent AI system in 24 hours to help automate accounting workflows while keeping humans in the loop.

Subscribe to our quarterly LSE Statistics external newsletter & get our updates & developments delivered direct to your inbox. Enter your name + email address here & away you go! https://mailchi.mp/9410d12b2863/subscribe-to-the-lse-department-of-statistics-newsletter-and-events-mailing-list

Our students had the benefit this week of hearing from Thrinayani Ramakrishnan, Vice Chair of the Sustainability Board at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Thrinayani delivered a talk on actuarial careers & the importance of sustainability, as part of our Statistics Insight seminar series.

This week's 'Stat of the Week' comes to you in the form of the decrease in turnover that 1 in 5 UK trading businesses are expecting in this month. 📉📉📉 Source: Office for National Statistics

Francesca will be working on the extension of her correlation-based analysis of international trade into a causal framework. Her main application areas include monitoring compliance with trade sanctions on Russia & assessing the impact of tariffs introduced by the US on trade flows.

We are delighted to welcome Dr Francesca Torti, who works on trade data analysis & anti-fraud at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, as a visitor to the Department this term. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Stat of the (now) Week is back! And after SO much rain since Christmas, of the first post had to be about the weather... 🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️🌧️ 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆 The number of days so far this year that rainfall has been recorded in North Wyke, Devon. Source: Met Office

🧐Check out the our recently launched research blog 'The Measure of it' & explore a growing body of original & accessible content - currently on financial statistics, machine learning, rating-scale data, psychometrics & predicting Antarctic ice melt. www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/t...

Congratulations to Abhimanyu Pandey and Emily Payne, our Worshipful Company of Actuaries prize winners. Thank you to Master Emma McWilliam and Andrew Cherkas from the WCA for an excellent lecture on how actuaries can help shape company strategy and performance.

For international women in science day we ask, 'what does it really mean to work as a data scientist today'? 👀Watch the recording of our session last week with three recent Stats grads who shared insights with our current students 📺 👇 youtu.be/XuzW9gwi3hY

We're getting underway this evening here at LSE with our Statistics Insights event with actuary & former senior consultant Andrew Cherkas & Emma McWilliam, Master of the Worshipful Company of Actuaries.

Our BSc students enjoying brunch on the top floor of the LSE's Chen Kin Ku building earlier today...

Is hype about AI justified? Cristobal Garibay-Petersen @lse-ei.bsky.social @mlorimer.bsky.social and @neuralisa.bsky.social argue AI discourse has gone too far, limiting the space for democratic engagement with and control of the technology @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

We are delighted to be joined tomorrow by the Worshipful Company of Actuaries' Andrew Cherkas. Andrew will draw on selected case studies from his career, and explore the critical components of an insurance business and the environment in which it operates.

Women in Data: The Reality of Being a Data Scientist Today An in-person panel on careers, challenges, and the changing role of data scientists — with speakers from industry and analytics. 4 Feb 2026 | 5–7pm GMT LSE, CLM.5.02 www.lse.ac.uk/statistics/s... #WomenInData #DataScience #LSEEvents

40 alumni. One voice. One LSE Department of Statistics. 📊 Stay in touch with the Department to keep up to date with future international alumni events and opportunities around the world - lnkd.in/eEVdMCrp #LSEStatistics #LSEAlumni #LSEGlobal #StatisticsAlumni

This 3 day ProbAI Theory of Scaling Laws Workshop looks good @warwickstats.bsky.social, 22-24 June. PhD students & researchers - check it out! Reg here until 31 March 👇warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/probai-scaling-laws-2026/registration/

Our AI Task Force has responded to the proposed AI Growth Lab — welcoming its potential but stressing that skills gaps, data readiness and governance must be addressed for real impact Read more 🔗 rss.org.uk/news-publica...

📢LSE Statistics students: tickets for the 2026 Stats Student Ball are on sale now! Get your ticket in the e-shop today: eshop.lse.ac.uk/product-cata... Three course dinner, live DJ, dancing and games at the Waldorf Hilton, Aldwych = not to be missed! 🍷🍸💃🕺

Today is the beginning of LSE Winter Term 2026. A very warm 'welcome back' to all our students - we hope you enjoyed the Christmas break!🌨️🧊🌧️

Good intentions aren’t enough to understand poverty—good data matters. Our new interim report with the Centre for Public Data examines gaps in UK poverty data and their impact on policy and research. Read more: rss.org.uk/news-publica...