Quantiles underpin widely used tools in finance, insurance, and economic inequality—yet building statistical inference for quantiles can be challenging because empirical quantiles are order statistics ...

Belief Function Theory provides a versatile framework for representing and combining uncertain evidence beyond the confines of classical probability. It assigns support to sets of hypotheses via mass ...

An extensive reinforcement learning literature shows that organisms assign credit efficiently, even under conditions of state uncertainty. However, little is known about credit-assignment when state ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the economics of AI. When OpenAI’s ChatGPT first exploded onto the scene in late 2022, it sparked a global obsession ...