A big part of his work is figuring out when a statistical method is truly the best choice. Some problems have straightforward ...

A general program that focuses on the analysis of quantities, magnitudes, forms, and their relationships, using symbolic logic and language. Includes instruction in algebra, calculus, functional ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

Introduces exploratory data analysis, probability theory, statistical inference, and data modeling. Topics include discrete and continuous probability distributions, expectation, laws of large numbers ...

A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for TheAtlantic.com ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Rand Wilcox does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

This is an enlargement of the first edition under the same title, published in 1997, and about 100 pages longer. There are new chapters on DNA sequence analysis and diffusion processes, plus an ...