Probability underpins AI, cryptography and statistics. However, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Probability is the ...

Jay Cowan still worries about the Rulison blast’s proximity to the Colorado River and expresses disbelief at the 107 days that radioactive gas was burned in order to test whether the radionuclides ...

The Carolina Panthers are getting closer to their first division title in nearly a decade. Thanks in part to an old friend in kicker Zane Gonzalez, the Atlanta Falcons walked off the Tampa Bay ...

Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

Abstract: With the preferable efficiency in storage and computation, hashing has shown potential application in large-scale multimedia retrieval. Compared with traditional hashing algorithms using ...

Non-probability sampling design can be used in ethnobotanical surveys of medicinal plants. However, this method does not allow statistical inferences to be made from the data generated. The aim of ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of finance and technology, follow for more. Joint probability teaches us to calculate combined outcomes.

What is a recession, and when will we know if we are in one? A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of declining gross domestic product counts as a recession. The U.S. could already ...

ABSTRACT: Numerous developing nations are grappling with high unemployment rates, as exemplified by South Africa’s 32.1% unemployment rate. This has resulted in a surge in youth unemployment, with ...

Life is uncertain. None of us know what is going to happen. We know little of what has happened in the past or is happening now outside our immediate experience. Uncertainty has been called the ...