The Chronicle of Higher Education

Statistics Without Algebra? That Could Be a Problem

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 ...
EurekAlert!

Why don't we understand statistics? Fixed mindsets may be to blame

Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for people ignoring simple solutions to statistical problems, making them hard to solve. This can have serious ...
EDN

Statistical timing analysis may understate the problem of timing variations

At the Design Automation & Test Europe (DATE) last week, IMEC reported on some fascinating work on percolating process variation data back up the design chain to the level of extraction and Verilog ...
Phys.org

Using statistical and historical methods to address problems in business strategy

Finding a convincing explanation of a complex issue is no easy task. The decision about what qualifies as the "best" solution is inevitably subject to biases and approximations. Coupling statistics ...
JSTOR Daily

Statistical Problems in Hospital Engineering

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician) The Statistician joined the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society as its Series D from the journal of the Institute of ...