The Gaussian Q-function is a fundamental statistical tool that plays a pivotal role in the analytical assessment of error probabilities within communication systems ...

MacKenzie is a very smart sociologist, who understands quants and copula functions much more deeply than I ever did. (And, like most journalists, I forgot nearly all of what I ever knew about them ...

This Chalk Talk highlights applications of a discrete Gaussian in various areas, following a 2025 paper by Chinta, Jorgenson, Karlsson, and Smajlović. The topics include heat diffusion, Bessel ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 258, No. 1294 (Oct. 25, 1960), pp. 402-411 (10 pages) Some years ago the author proved that explicit ...

As the first successful technique used to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars, the radial velocity method aims to detect a periodic Doppler shift in a stellar spectrum due to the star's motion ...

Wall Street's wild swings last week helped skew both retirement portfolios and mathematical models of the financial markets. After all, a standard Gaussian function—a bell curve—would predict that ...