Abstract: Assumptions play a pivotal role in the selection and efficacy of statistical models, as unmet assumptions can lead to flawed conclusions and impact decision ...

Although catastrophe theory has been applied with mixed success to many problems in the biosciences, very few of these applications have used any form of statistical modeling. We present examples of ...

Figure 1: Measuring fit of the Ricker model. There is extremely strong statistical evidence that the Nicholson blowfly fluctuations are limit cycles perturbed by noise. They are not the result of ...

William Chiu was part of the MSiA program’s first cohort in 2012. Now he’s vice president and head of statistical modeling for First Republic Bank. In late 2012, William Chiu (MSiA ‘13) took a break ...

Doctors' survival predictions for terminally ill patients have been shown to be inaccurate and there has been an argument for less guesswork and more use of carefully constructed statistical indices.

A data-driven computational approach developed by a University of Illinois statistician is revealing secrets about inner Earth and discovering unique gene expressions in fruit flies, zebra fish and ...

Bracket Breakers is written by Peter Keating and Jordan Brenner. This series identified the major upsets in each region, using their Slingshot model, which was developed alongside the Furman ...

2 School of Exercise Science, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 ...