Number Literacy/General Statistics

Credit: University of Technology, Sydney Greater sports participation among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is linked with better academic performance, according to new research from the University of South Australia.…

By applying statistical geometry to analyzing urban road networks, KAUST researchers have advanced understanding of how wireless charging roads might influence driver behavior and city planning in a future where electric vehicles (EVs)…

Predictive analytics is the art and science of proposed predictive systems and models. With tuning over time, these models can predict an outcome with a far higher statistical probability than mere guesswork. Predictive analytics plays an…

Economic inequality can cause it; Reversing it is difficultCredit: University of Houston Political polarization - the ever-present and growing division between Republicans and Democrats along ideological lines ­- has a powerful grip on…

The coronavirus outbreak offered the public a crash course in statistics, with terms like doubling time, logarithmic scales, R factor, rolling averages, and excess mortality now on everyone's tongue. However, simply having heard these…

Company reporting frequency should be relaxed to allow for greater innovation and longer-term thinking, according to new research from the Business School (formerly Cass). The study, co-authored by Dr Arthur Kraft, Reader in Accounting,…

A team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique and the Institut national de santé publique du Québec has recently developed a cold-health watch and warning system for cold wavesCredit: Josée Lecompte A team from the…

New research analysing racial disparities among murder victims across most of Britain over the last two decades shows that people of Asian ethnicity are on average twice as likely as White British people to be killed. For Black people,…

Credit: Staffan Widstrand Photography Where the wild things are: Scientists map and forecast apex predator populations at unprecedented scale. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), together with…

Analysis finds common errors in pandemic information sharing on social mediaCredit: Image courtesy Francesco Cafaro, Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS -- The frantic swirl of coronavirus-related information sharing that took…

The QUANTA project is the first concerted effort to address the ambitious questions of when, why, and how tools for quantification emerged and evolvedCredit: Eivind Senneset The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and…

Credit: University of Cambridge What are the secrets behind one of the most successful fantasy series of all time? How has a story as complex as "Game of Thrones" enthralled the world and how does it compare to other…

Credit: Michael A. Skeide, 2020 DNA variation in a gene called ROBO1 is associated with early anatomical differences in a brain region that plays a key role in quantity representation, potentially explaining how genetic variability…

The mathematics of unpredictability, from the weather to the stock market The math we are taught in school is precise and only deals with simple situations. Reality is far more complex. Trying to understand a system with multiple…

Over the past week, the diverse program of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) materialized one session at a time. Many aspects of the actual Forum were mirrored and though replicating the depth of in-person exchanges is…

Credit: University of Warwick Many complex systems have underlying networks: they have nodes which represent units of the system and their edges indicate connections between the units. In some contexts, the connections are…

Researchers detected an unexpected 50% increase in patients presenting with respiratory illnesses at UCLA Health facilities in the months before the pandemic UCLA researchers and colleagues who analyzed electronic health records found…

HSE University economists (Ludmila Zasimova and Marina Kolosnitsyna analyzed two data sets for Russian regions in 2010-2016: the official statistics of the Russian Statistics Agency on alcohol sales and estimates of unregistered alcohol…

Unravelling number enigmas on ancient CreteCredit: Elsevier Amsterdam, September 7, 2020 - A recent study by a team based at the University of Bologna, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, has shed new light on…

Syracuse, N.Y. - A recent study by sport analytics professors shows the Adjusted Plus-Minus (APM) statistic used to evaluate the performance of NBA players is sometimes misleading because it does not accurately account for the quality of…