One of the great challenges of parenthood is how to lose games of chance. How can I let my son win at Chutes and Ladders (thereby improving his self-esteem and reducing family tension) without ...

This column is the fourth in a series on parameter estimation, leading up to the justly famous Kalman filter. The discipline is based on the fact that our knowledge of the state of any real-world ...

MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'With the world's fish stocks under pressure, 'it's vital for us to find out as much about their populations 'as we possibly can. MARCUS DU SAUTOY:'But with so many fish out there, it ...

The normal distribution (also known as the Gaussian distribution) is arguably the most important distribution in Statistics. It is often used to represent continuous random variables occurring in ...