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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 ...

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Statistical machine learning is at the core of modern-day advances in artificial intelligence, but a Rochester Institute of Technology professor argues that applying it correctly requires equal parts ...

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 ...

Fred Hutch Cancer Center biostatistician Peter Gilbert, PhD, received the 2025 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from Harvard University. The award recognizes Gilbert’s ...

For more than three decades, DHS provided vital demographic and health data on population, health, HIV, and nutrition in over ...