Physicists have spent centuries grappling with an inconvenient truth about nature: Faced with three stars on a collision course, astronomers could measure their locations and velocities in nanometers ...

Using nationally representative household consumption surveys from 23 countries that together account for 50% of the world’s poor, we estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% (from a baseline of ...

Although population association studies are not new, there remain many areas of disagreement over appropriate statistical analyses. This article provides an overview of statistical methods, including ...

Low statistical power undermines the purpose of scientific research; it reduces the chance of detecting a true effect. Perhaps less intuitively, low power also reduces the likelihood that a ...

The Yankees love to tout their analytical prowess. In recent years, the team has dedicated millions of dollars to its analytics department, a shadow operation whose impact is hard to understand from ...

The paper presents a discussion on the compound statistical decision problem. The non-sequential decision problem is described generally, and a simple example of a particular compound rule is given.

Pigeons might do better than humans at game shows, at least on "Let's Make A Deal." These new findings — involving the pigeons superior ability to solve a perplexing statistical problem — might in ...