I give a lot of talks to successful, strategically-minded business people who can see around corners in their own industries, yet they struggle to grasp what exponential improvement really means. And ...

What are the underlying principles of how populations change over time? Two basic principles are involved, the idea of exponential growth and its ultimate control. The basics of population ecology ...

Sankhyā: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series A (1961-2002), Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun., 1990), pp. 192-217 (26 pages) When sampling from multiparameter exponential family, the characteristic function ...

Tierney and Kadane (1986) presented a simple second-order approximation for posterior expectations of positive functions. They used Laplace's method for asymptotic evaluation of integrals, in which ...

At a virtual conference in November 2020, the winner of a biennial protein-structure-prediction challenge was announced: AlphaFold. Created by Google DeepMind, this computational tool had blown its ...