I've become alarmed recently at the number of young engineers (i.e. those with less than 5 years of work experience), who seem to have missed the college course on applied probability and don't know ...

Geoff Cumming receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Such research findings sound exciting because the word significant suggests important and large. But researchers often use the word ...

A kernel regression imputation method for missing response data is developed. A class of bias-corrected empirical log-likelihood ratios for the response mean is defined. It is shown that any member of ...

A class of linear combinations of order statistics (LCOSs) based on a random sample drawn from an arbitrary distribution is represented as a sum of independent and identically distributed random ...

Sometimes it’s hard to have confidence in science. So many results from published scientific studies turn out to be wrong. Part of the problem is that science has trouble quantifying just how ...

In statistics, confidence intervals are mathematical chances that a repeated test or experiment will fall within given parameters. Don’t look too deeply into this definition. Just please grant me some ...