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 ...

The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...

Bayesian inference provides a robust framework for combining prior knowledge with new evidence to update beliefs about uncertain quantities. In the context of statistical inverse problems, this ...

This article concerns the construction of simple numerical illustrations of statistical techniques for use in introductory classes. Minimizing the amount of calculation facilitates checking, promotes ...

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.

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 ...

In 1999, an English solicitor named Sally Clark went on trial for the murder of her two infant sons. She claimed both succumbed to sudden infant death syndrome. An expert witness for the prosecution, ...