Number Literacy/General Statistics

Citizen science data offers novel comparison of flora and fauna between metropolitan areasCredit: © 2018 Amy Patten SAN FRANCISCO (April 30, 2019) - Scientists are analyzing a rare snapshot in time of urban plants and…

Credit: Pixabay Scientists should stop using the term 'statistically significant' in their research, urges this editorial in a special issue of The American Statistician published today. The issue, Statistical Inference in the 21st…

It's an infamous pop culture portrayal. After smoking marijuana, the main characters in the movie go on an epic junk-food binge, consuming mass quantities of chips, cookies, and whatever other high-calorie, salt-or-sugar-laden snacks they…

Session to be held 3:30-5:00 p.m., Friday, Feb. 15, Washington 2 room, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C. EVENT: Machine Learning and Statistics: Applications in Genomics and Computer Vision - a Scientific Session at the AAAS…

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- Have you ever been stressed out by the idea of doing math or statistics problems? You're not alone. Research shows that up to 80 percent of college students experience some form of statistics…

A new method for extracting the backbone of networked social interactionsCredit: SocioPatterns In recent years, behavioral patterns of social creatures, such as humans, cattle, ants, etc., have been discovered by using wearable sensors…

Tool for nonstatisticians automatically generates models that glean insights from complex datasets MIT researchers are hoping to advance the democratization of data science with a new tool for nonstatisticians that automatically generates…

As scientific funding becomes increasingly scarce, professors in STEM fields spend more time in their offices writing grant applications: by one estimate, as much as one-fifth of their research time. That takes time and energy away from…

People make statistically-informed judgments about who is more likely to hold particular professions even though they criticize others for the same behavior, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the…

Credit: Azose and Raftery, PNAS, 2018 On today's increasingly crowded globe, human migration can strain infrastructure and resources. Accurate data on migration flows could help governments plan for and respond to immigrants. Yet these…