In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...

MORE FROM BUSINESS INSIDER: Sinofsky's Farewell Memo to Microsoft Why Mobile Commerce Is Set to Explode The S&P's Last Gasp Even a rudimentary look at probability can give new insights about how to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From Mr Johannes Jütting. Sir, David Pilling, in “Poverty eradicated at a statistical stroke” (August 28), ...

“Evidence for a limit to human lifespan” contains two analysis: one on supercentenarians and one survival data. Experts think both are doubtful. The article Evidence for a limit to human lifespan ...

Recent results on discretization effects in unfolding intensity function of an indirectly observed nonhomogeneous Poisson process show that a critical feasibility condition for the strong L² ...

The basic hypothesis underlying current deterministic cosmologies, namely the so-called cosmological principle, can be stated precisely only in terms of probabilistic concepts. Consequently, ...