Statistics is a branch of math that involves the collection, description, analysis, and inference of conclusions from ...

Although population association studies are not new, there remain many areas of disagreement over appropriate statistical analyses. This article provides an overview of statistical methods, including ...

ECONOMISTS develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “What Are Economic Models,” F&D, ...

Figure 1: Measuring fit of the Ricker model. There is extremely strong statistical evidence that the Nicholson blowfly fluctuations are limit cycles perturbed by noise. They are not the result of ...

In recent years, a need for compact representations of databases has become apparent, for example in natural language understanding, machine learning, and decision making, accompanied by a need for ...