New R package turns messy school and clinic counts into honest proportions with uncertainty
sitemix, a new open-source R package, computes site- and group-level proportions and standard errors from individual records or published counts, ...
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Statistical Filter Strips Impulse Noise From Images 150 Times Faster Than Loops
A new two-stage statistical algorithm detects impulse noise through Beta distribution fitting, higher-order moments, and robust MAD estimation, then reconstructs ...
Bayesian statistics tames heavy tails in censored reliability data, new study shows
A new statistical study shows that Bayesian inference with a heavy-tailed Weibull model and unified progressive-hybrid censoring with binomial removal ...
The Century-Old Breakdown Law That Just Got Reversed
A new statistical and physical model of dielectric breakdown reveals that defect annihilation, not just defect generation, controls the famous ...
Machine learning reads ultrasound speckle statistics to tell glioblastoma from healthy brain tissue
A proof-of-concept study shows that statistical distributions fitted to ultrasound echo envelopes, combined with machine learning, can distinguish glioblastoma from ...
Layered Stacking Ensemble Promises Sharper Fixes for Missing Data
A new PLOS One study introduces Layered Stacking, an ensemble imputation method that outperformed five established techniques in simulations and ...
Stop trusting single accuracy scores: why ML models need distributional evaluation
A large-scale study argues that machine learning performance should be reported as distributions with confidence intervals on quantiles rather than ...
New Feature Selection Method Prods Probability Densities to Reveal Which Data Features Matter
Researchers have developed ProD, a visualizable filter feature selection method that ranks variables by measuring the geometric overlap between class ...
Two Georgia State Doctoral Students Win SURA Graduate Awards for AI and Statistics Research
Two Georgia State University doctoral students, Ahanab Hafiz Anab and Haobo Cui, are among only four recipients of the 2026 ...
Mental Health’s Comorbidity Problem May Be an Illusion Created by Healthy People
A landmark study of nearly 12,000 youths shows that correlations among psychopathology dimensions are driven by the absence of symptoms, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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