Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...

Let’s start with a definition of Applied Statistics: Applied Statistics is the root of data analysis. The practice of applied statistics involves analyzing data to help define and determine an ...

As statistics continues to play an ever more important role in society, equal access to data resources in developing countries is becoming more essential. Yet the ability to collect good data, the ...

The Center for Statistics and Advanced Analytics provides support to Boston College researchers related to the collection and the analysis of data. Our team includes statisticians and other data ...

The purpose of the course is to introduce the statistical methods that are critical in the performance analysis and selection of information systems and networks. It includes fundamental topics as ...

Gene-set analysis of GWAS data can best be understood as an analysis using genes as data points, carrying out a test of the relationship between a gene set and the genetic associations of genes with a ...

Usually when it comes to writing, mathematics and statistics probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. However, quite the number of us have had to face an instance where a source based on ...

Major US cities overall experienced a steep drop in violent crime last year, according to a statistical analysis released by the Major Cities Chiefs Association.

Data rarely comes in usable form. Data wrangling and exploratory data analysis are the difference between a good data science model and garbage in, garbage out. Novice data scientists sometimes have ...

The data genie is well and truly out of the bottle. The presence of data-driven consultancies, the rise of public data websites and the growth of its use in the media (cough, cough) highlight how ...