In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

In recent months, we’ve all been bombarded with numbers. It’s vital that we learn how to interpret them In the institute where I used to work a few years ago, a rare non-infectious illness hit five ...

The rich world of permutation tests can be supplemented by a variety of applications where only some permutations are permitted. We consider two examples: testing independence with truncated data and ...

Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for people ignoring simple solutions to statistical problems, making them hard to solve. This can have serious ...

The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We present a general approach to statistical problems with criteria based on probabilities of large deviations. Our main idea, which ...

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