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 ...

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 ...

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.

Nomograms are widely used for cancer prognosis, primarily because of their ability to reduce statistical predictive models into a single numerical estimate of the probability of an event, such as ...

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 ...

In a recent article published in the eLife Journal, researchers launched a possum excreta surveillance program across 350 km 2 in the Mornington Peninsula near South Melbourne, Australia. The study ...