Voting for the Eurovision Song Contest has been scrutinised by statistics experts at UCL and Imperial College London, who have found that musical talent is unlikely to be the only element that wins scores – but that the ...
Mathematics
May 1, 2014
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In a policy statement issued today, the American Statistical Association (ASA) stated statistics is "foundational to data science"—along with database management and distributed and parallel systems—and its use in this ...
Mathematics
Oct 1, 2015
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Statistical models are playing an increasingly important role in risk analysis and helping the United States and other countries around the globe mitigate the effects of natural and man-made disasters, said Siddhartha (Sid) ...
Mathematics
Aug 10, 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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A large study, led by academics from Royal Holloway, University of London, found research used by policy-makers regarding conservation and environmental management is unstable over time and can quickly become out of date: ...
Environment
Dec 22, 2023
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There is a replicability crisis in science – unidentified "false positives" are pervading even our top research journals.
Mathematics
Oct 6, 2016
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Today, at the Moriond conference, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations have both presented the observation of a very rare process: the simultaneous production of four top quarks. They were observed using data from collisions ...
General Physics
Mar 24, 2023
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SuMo Biomaterials is a VINN Excellence centre at Chalmers with 35 research groups, seven participating companies and the institute SP Food and Bioscience. The centre is funded equally by Vinnova, the industry and Chalmers. ...
Mathematics
Sep 15, 2015
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A new analysis has determined median ages of cancer diagnosis for dogs with different characteristics, providing support for the establishment of cancer screening guidelines that vary according to breed or weight. Jill Rafalko ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2023
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The American Statistical Association (ASA) has released a "Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values" with six principles underlying the proper use and interpretation of the p-value. The ASA releases this guidance ...
Mathematics
Mar 7, 2016
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