Statistics

Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.

The French mathematician spent decades developing a set of tools now widely used for taming random processes.

Mathematicians are working to fully explain unusual behaviors uncovered using artificial intelligence.

Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.”

Anesthesia is very different from sleep — which is why it offers unique opportunities for studying the human brain, says the physician-researcher and statistician Emery Brown.

Most modeling efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic have sought to address urgent practical concerns. But some groups aim to bolster the theoretical underpinnings of that work instead.

To the surprise of experts in the field, a postdoctoral statistician has solved one of the most important problems in high-dimensional convex geometry.

Rogue waves — enigmatic giants of the sea — were thought to be caused by two different mechanisms. But a new idea that borrows from the hinterlands of probability theory has the potential to predict them all.

Promising efforts at disentangling the effects of genes and the environment on complicated traits may have been confounded by statistical problems.