While several studies suggest that the nature and properties of the input have significant effects on statistical learning, they have rarely been investigated systematically. In order to understand ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

The 10th Expert Group Meeting on Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX) was hosted by the IMF virtually during January 25-28, 2021. The goal of the Meeting was to help evolve the SDMX standard ...

Presentation: Robert Dorrington, University of Cape Town, Methods for estimating the numbers of births: Lessons from an investigation of the age distribution of younger people in the 2011 South ...

Clear presentation of results is essential for scientific progress. One aspect of data display that poses challenges for clarity is the use of logarithms. Logarithms convert multiplicative ...

Many businesses rely on statistical analysis to organize collected information and predict future trends based on that data. While organizations have lots of options on what to do with their big data, ...