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 ...

The optimal class of rules for allocating subjects, on the basis of an observable symptom profile, to sick or well states is based on the likelihood-ratio scale. This scale is estimated from a ...

The International Prize in Statistics has been awarded to Bradley Efron, professor of statistics and biomedical data science at Stanford University, in recognition of the "bootstrap," a method he ...