The first thing any scientist does before performing an experiment is to form a hypothesis about the experiment's outcome. This often takes the form of a null hypothesis, which is a statistical ...

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The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...

In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research station in Hertfordshire, UK. One of them, a statistician by the name of Ronald Fisher, poured a cup ...

Robust statistical reasoning is vital in the courtroom, as historical cases have shown. Take, for example, the case of Sally Clark, who became the victim of a miscarriage of justice when she was ...

As serial interfaces have pushed the required Bit Error Rate (BER) down to 1e-12 and below, the length of a classic time domain simulation clearly becomes no longer ...