Statistical agencies have lost scores of staff under the Trump administration, threatening their ability to meet their ...

Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

In the middle of the 20 th century, the field of psychology had a problem. In the wake of the Manhattan Project and in the early days of the space race, the so-called “hard sciences” were producing ...

The Department of Statistics provides students with a thorough grounding in statistical ideas, skills valued by employers, and opportunities for advanced study. We are committed to scholarship in ...

We encounter statistics every day, but it is not always easy to interpret them appropriately. During her doctoral thesis work in the abstract field of number theory, Dutch mathematician Ionica Smeets ...