Lies, dammed lies, and environmental statistics, Invited contribution to Diderot mathematical forum, CWI

Abstract

The speaker wants to make clear from the start that he is a mathematical statistician---i.e., a mathematician who studies and developes statistical theory---with certainly a great (layman's) interest in environmental matters, but with very little actual professional practical experience in this big and important field (though with plenty of professional practical experience in other fields of application of statistics).