A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste ...

From advances in artificial intelligence and blockchain to precision agriculture, statistical innovation drives progress and bolsters U.S. competitiveness. Data underpins science in every field and ...

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Statistics is the science of learning from data. The theoretical foundation of statistics lies in probability theory, which is applied to decision-making under uncertainty. Data science consists of ...

Sports performance is a difficult thing to study. There are only so many trained athletes available for experiments, and most of the measurements required to investigate human performance are ...

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 ...

A recent study that questioned the healthfulness of eggs raised a perpetual question: Why do studies, as has been the case with health research involving eggs, so often flip-flop from one answer to ...

Faculty develop methods for structured and unstructured biomedical data that advance statistical inference, machine learning, causal inference, and algorithmic modeling. Their work delivers principled ...

Growth and change in technology have brought a boom in the availability of data and the need for people to shape technologies. Growing areas like machine learning require expertise in programming, ...

Our students become deft and able in data visualization, analysis and statistics, and apply these skills in a wide range of fields in business, engineering, public health and social justice. The ...

The Department of Applied Mathematics offers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in Statistics and Data Science through the College of Arts and Sciences. The BA degree is designed with an ...