The American Statistician strives to publish articles of general interest to the statistical profession on topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not highly ...

Despite its unprecedented success in accurately predicting experimental results, there is no consensus about the foundational concepts of quantum mechanics. The reality of the wavefunction is still ...

When the mathematicians Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai first posed their “expectation threshold” conjecture in 2006, they didn’t believe it themselves. Their claim — a broad assertion about mathematical ...

Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

What Is A Probability Density Function? A probability density function, also known as a bell curve, is a fundamental statistics concept, that describes the likelihood of a continuous random variable ...

David Kleinfeld receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. My colleagues and I recently found that we were able to train mice to voluntarily increase the size and frequency of seemingly ...