In the last year, statistics have been unusually important in the news. How accurate is the COVID-19 test you or others are using? How do researchers know the effectiveness of new therapeutics for COVID-19 patients? How can ...
Mathematics
Jan 7, 2021
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Earlier this fall Dr. Scott Solomon presented the results of a huge heart drug study to an audience of fellow cardiologists in Paris.
Mathematics
Nov 12, 2019
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What is the difference between statistics and data science—and, perhaps more importantly, why do we have two fields with what seems to be the same focus? The best way to understand the emergence of data science as a separate ...
Mathematics
Jul 30, 2018
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Statistics is one of the fastest-growing degrees in the U.S., but the growth may not be enough to satisfy the high demand for statisticians in technology, consumer products, health care, government, manufacturing and other ...
Other
Oct 1, 2015
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Despite the British government's boasts of the steady roll-out of superfast broadband to more than four out of five homes and businesses, you needn't be a statistician to realise that this means one out of five are still ...
Telecom
Aug 19, 2015
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With more information than ever at our fingertips, statisticians are vital to innumerable fields and industries. Welcome to the world of the datarati, where humans and machines team up to crunch the numbers.
Mathematics
Jun 4, 2015
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It's an exciting time to be doing statistics. You heard me – statistics: exciting.
Mathematics
May 28, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Valen Johnson, a statistician with Texas A&M University is suggesting in a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that the statistical standard used to judge the soundness of research ...
As a child in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain, Ruben Juanes was already fascinated by science, and that interest was fostered by a science teacher who taught him in the fifth and sixth grades.
General Physics
Sep 17, 2013
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New methods of analysing high resolution digital airborne imagery are being trialled in a bid to track water usage in Perth's drying climate.
Environment
Aug 27, 2013
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