Mathematics News

The new edition of Essentials of Business Statistics delivers clear and understandable explanations of core business statistics concepts, making it ideal for a one-term course in business statistics.

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Lubbock's jobless rate dipped below 5 percent last month on a gain of 700 jobs, according to new figures from the Texas Workforce Commission.

Demakein ======== Paul Harrison - pfh@logarithmic.net Demakein is a set of Python tools for designing and making woodwind instruments.

New home prices rose at a slower pace in Chinese cities in April as the government's recent tightening measures started to take effect, data from the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Saturday.

Khan Academy founder Sal Khan returns home this weekend as one of the biggest names in U.S. education reform.

Bulgaria's economy posted 0.1 per cent growth in the first quarter of the year, the National Statistical Institute said in a flash estimate on May 15.

The Internal Revenue Service is under fire for inappropriately targeting conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status.

Although statistical trends point to a stabilized economic outlook for the economy in and around Boston, produce vendors in the area say their numbers don't necessarily support those findings.

According to Business Insider , based on analyses of average market performance by month over the past 50 years, stocks underperform in the six-month period from May through October when compared with the period from November through April.

EUROCOMP has announced PocketCAS 3.2, an update to its powerful mathematics software for iPad and iPhone.

By Fiona Mullen Director, Sapienta Economics Ltd May 15 marks the two-month anniversary of the "Ides of March", when the unprecedented decision to hit small bank depositors in Cyprus, and the parliament decision to reject it, introduced capital controls for the first time in an EU country and sent the Cyprus economy reeling.

The majority of high school math students failed their final exams last semester, several news outlets reported earlier this month, but at Tuesday's meeting of the Montgomery County Board of Education, Superintendent Joshua Starr cautioned against jumping to conclusions, The Washington Post reported .

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Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

May 16, 2013 Kitware, a leading provider of scientific R&D software solutions, today announces new Phase II SBIR funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for the continued development of an open-source, high performance computing simulation and computation framework.

West Virginia-native Homer Hickham, 70, has offered expelled honor student Kiera Wilmont a scholarship to the United States Advanced Space Academy in Huntsville, Ala.

Teachers won't have any reason to underperform when they realise that government is taking them seriously, says Ace Moloi .

People often ask me how I got interested in science. I wish I could answer that I had a mentor when I was a child, that a biologist or a physicist visited my school when I was in third grade and transformed my life.