Physicists have spent centuries grappling with an inconvenient truth about nature: Faced with three stars on a collision course, astronomers could measure their locations and velocities in nanometers ...

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), ...

Low statistical power undermines the purpose of scientific research; it reduces the chance of detecting a true effect. Perhaps less intuitively, low power also reduces the likelihood that a ...

Although population association studies are not new, there remain many areas of disagreement over appropriate statistical analyses. This article provides an overview of statistical methods, including ...

The paper presents a discussion on the compound statistical decision problem. The non-sequential decision problem is described generally, and a simple example of a particular compound rule is given.

Pigeons might do better than humans at game shows, at least on "Let's Make A Deal." These new findings — involving the pigeons superior ability to solve a perplexing statistical problem — might in ...