Number Literacy/General Statistics

Who made more accurate predictions about the course of the COVID-19 pandemic - experts or the public? A study from the University of Cambridge has found that experts such as epidemiologists and statisticians made far more accurate…

Credit: MU College of Education COLUMBIA, Mo. -- In her 16 years teaching algebra, Amy Dwiggins has seen countless students struggle with the seemingly abstract subject. But the creation of new, online professional development materials…

Credit: © 2021 Morgan Bennett Smith Not all stars shine brightly all the time. Some have a brightness that changes rhythmically due to cyclical phenomena like passing planets or the tug of other stars. Others show a slow change in this…

Project will look at impact of change points on statisticsCredit: UMass Lowell LOWELL, Mass. - A UMass Lowell professor recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to explore how change points affect…

In a company record, SAGE brings home nine wins across each award category SAGE Publishing has shared resources from nine titles that received 2021Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) Awards. The free-to-access materials from…

Pedestrian movements are tricky to track, but now the first large-scale statistical analysis of pedestrian flow using anonymous phone data collected in three European capital cities, London, Amsterdam and Stockholm, has been conducted by…

Researchers are developing new autonomous technologies that can help people check that isolated elderly family members are okay. Researchers are developing new autonomous technologies that can help people check that isolated elderly family…

Service quality and system quality rank second and thirdCredit: NTU Singapore A study by a research team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and China's first digital-only bank WeBank has found that…

The 21-digit solution to the decades-old problem suggests many more solutions exist. What do you do after solving the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If you're mathematicians Drew Sutherland and Andy Booker, you go for the…

Credit: Jan Potgieter, University of Johannesburg First grade teachers can find out who is on track with math and who is lagging, using an accurate diagnostic test that they can administer in the classroom. After Covid-19 school…

Maine CDC grant will support improving access to safe drinking waterCredit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The MDI Biological Laboratory will collaborate with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, an…

A test developed jointly by HSE University Moscow and Stanford University assessed student performance in mathematics, physics, critical thinkingCredit: Igor Chirikov A group of researchers representing four countries summed up the…

In the last 15 years, elite researchers have increased their share of citations from 14 to 21 per cent, shows new research from Aarhus BSS at Aarhus University. The uneven distribution can have negative consequences for research.Credit:…

In new research, Dr Andrea Baronchelli and colleagues highlight the importance of the continuous monitoring of dark web marketplaces (DWMs), especially in light of the current shortage and availability of COVID-19 vaccinesCredit: (City,…

The journal Nature Communications publishes the results of the first scientific study to assess the reliability of the application; one of the participants is the URV professor Àlex Arenas The application Radar COVID detects twice as many…

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…