Statistical testing and lower bounds in distributed estimation constitute a rapidly evolving area that addresses both the design of robust tests for assessing data properties across networked systems ...

The moment you’ve produced a single numeric “estimate,” you’ve created a guess dressed in statistical clothing. As you add more estimates, your guess may become more or less respectable, but it ...

We show that error distributions of a compilation of 28 recent independent measurements of the distance from the Sun to the Galactic center, R₀, are wider than a ...

And how many of them are needed to build a house of cards? Just one — if you're willing to decorate it with decimals and call it science. A global analysis claims plastics are responsible for 13.497% ...

Sources: Overall death data and covid-19 death counts come from the National Center for Health Statistics, and estimates for expected deaths come from Yale School of Public Health’s Modeling Unit.

The shock of the COVID-19 pandemic created urgent demand for “high frequency” national statistics. Prior to the pandemic, many economic indicators were available only on an annual basis (or even less ...

Nine in 10 medieval manuscripts telling tales of chivalry and heroism have been lost to time, according to a new estimate that uses ecological statistical models to understand the volume of literature ...