Abstract: Statisticians are not only one of the earliest professional adopters of data visualization, but also some of its most prolific users. Understanding how these professionals utilize visual ...

FEBRUARY IS HEART MONTH AND FITTING ON THIS VALENTINE’S DAY, WE ARE FOCUSING ON HEART HEALTH. THERE’S NEW RESEARCH RESEARCH OUT THAT SAYS MORE YOUNG ADULTS ARE HAVING HEART ATTACKS. I SPOKE WITH A ...

Data quality is critical for successful data processing, with robust statistics essential for handling outliers and ensuring accurate representation. The standard deviation is sensitive to outliers, ...

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of payments. It's easy to forget that beneath the surface of every smart algorithm lies a surprisingly old ...

ABSTRACT: Singh, Gewali, and Khatiwada proposed a skewness measure for probability distributions called Area Skewness (AS), which has desirable properties but has not been widely applied in practice.

Racism in healthcare can have negative consequences for both those being treated and healthcare workers, leading to higher risks of illness and, in some cases, lower standards of care for people of ...

Forcibly displaced persons, including refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), as well as stateless persons are frequently underrepresented or invisible in national data. However, realiable ...

Over the last couple years, the UHC-housed Big Cities Health Inventory has been publishing data on how health outcomes compare between big US cities. In one of their briefs, they used simple ...

Macy Alcido is a former writer for Forbes Health, based in New York City. She discovered her love for health reporting while attending the Columbia Journalism School, and has since contributed ...