Mathematics News

The appropriate statistics for a billion features is +/-6sigma. And it shouldn't be 5-10% of the nominal dose.

Williams College Professor of Mathematics Satyan Devadoss has received the 2014 Northeastern Section Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, bestowed by the Mathematical Association of America.

Here's your cool math for the day: a model showing that when one new thing happens, more will follow.

While Nate Silver is among the best at predicting election outcomes - if not the best - that hasn't earned him unconditional love in Washington, where he still sometimes finds himself an outsider looking in.

Pantimoong Narisara, of Thailand, was arrested on Wednesday at Tan Son Nhat International Airport for transporting nearly 4 kilos of cocaine into Viet Nam.

BACKGROUND:Statistics in ranked lists is useful in analysing molecular biology measurement data, such as differential expression, resulting in ranked lists of genes, or ChIP-Seq, which yields ranked lists of genomic sequences.

The movies look like images of distant galaxies. Yet they depict something far closer to home: the migration patterns of prominent Europeans and Americans over the last 2,000 years.

Think of the city with the most crime in America, and, naturally, Chicago tops the list .

According to a new Statistics Canada study, 91 per cent of people in Sudbury and surrounding districts support breastfeeding in public.

Townhall 's Katie Pavlich is tired of the way the Left repeatedly defines women "by the pills they take, by their body parts, and as victims of their gender."

Lord Fairfax Community College's Cheryl Brindle was named a winner of a Blackboard Catalyst Award for Exemplary Course, which recognizes faculty and course designers from schools, colleges and universities around the world who develop exciting and innovative courses that represent the very best in technology and learning.

Image Caption: Senior Lecturer Dr Iain Murray and PhD student Azadeh Nazemi developed a digital reading system for people who are blind, allowing them to read graphical material.

Bulgaria's population has shrunk by 0.5% year-on-year to 7.245 million in 2013, maintaining the rate of decline from the previous year, official figures showed on Thursday.

Donors and countries in Africa need "revolutionary" changes to turn the tide on "bad data", as well as to insulate data from politics, according to a report on the data revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Depression can strike at any age, but women are at a higher risk for experiencing depression, especially after age 40. Statistically, women are twice as likely to develop clinical depression as men, with one in four women suffering a depressive episode at some point in their lives.

The number of construction jobs in the Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor Metropolitan Statistical Area grew 15% in June from the like month a year ago.

While Jennifer Mok graduated with an industrial engineering degree in 2010, she now works as a management consultant for nonprofits in Washington, D.C. "I'm interested in finding more meaning in my work, rather than stability," she said.

Is 2014 the deadliest year for flights? After three airline crashes in one week, travelers may wonder if, statistically, the skies are getting more dangerous.

Muscat: To mark the occasion of the 44th Renaissance Day, the National Centre for Statistics and Information launched a new initiative to provide information.

Madbits, a year-old company that uses deep learning technology to assign relevant information to raw images, has sold itself to Twitter, according to the Madbits website .