Explore the importance of robust statistics like median and MAD in data analysis, ensuring accurate insights despite outliers ...

The Durbin Watson statistic is a number that tests for autocorrelation in the residuals from a statistical regression analysis.

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing —class time ...

Nonparametric estimation of probability density functions, both marginal and joint densities, is a very useful tool in statistics. The kernel method is popular and applicable to dependent data, ...

Both the budgets and methods of US statistical agencies like the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis have come under political challenge.

Three familiar examples are discusses: the choice between Normal based and non-parametric methods, the use of multiple-comparison procedures, and the choice of sums of squares for main effects in ...

Data collected by private companies can give us unique insight into the economy, but it’s not a substitute for the Bureau of ...