Penn State's Mark Louie Ramos on what a national survey found about statistical literacy, and why understanding it has more to do with reasoning than with math. EDITED BY MARK MIANO | SEPTEMBER 11, ...

From the daily weather forecast to a baseball player's batting average to an individual's risk of developing lung cancer, understanding statistics can help people in the United States navigate their ...

One thing that people often misunderstand about statistics is that every statistic means something only in comparison to something else. A different comparison point changes how you perceive the exact ...

Our world of Big Data is defined by the quantification of everything. In order to make sense of all the data around us, we need to understand statistics and statistical thinking. Statistics, after all ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

Statistics is the study of data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation. Another way to think about statistics is that it provides the framework to generate and share new knowledge about ...