Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread From the Data. By Charles Wheelan. Norton; 282 pages; $26.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk DATA are everywhere these days; the problem is making sense of ...

Research of the probability and statistics group includes particle systems, theoretical statistics, non-conventional random walks, random matrix theory, and random polynomials. Research interests also ...

Statistics is the science of analyzing data; the use of statistics is ubiquitous in science, engineering, medicine and epidemiology, marketing, and many other application areas. Probability theory ...

Cynthia Frelund dives into the numbers to quantify the impact of Tackle Probability using Next Gen Stats' Tackle Probability model. A look back at the five fastest ball carriers from Week 17 of the ...

I was thinking more about David Brooks’s anti-data column from earlier in the week, and I realized what is really bothering me. Brooks expresses skepticism about numbers, about the limitations of raw ...

In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...