Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...
Research of the probability and statistics group includes particle systems, theoretical statistics, non-conventional random walks, random matrix theory, and random polynomials. Research interests also ...
Circular statistics is a specialised subfield of statistics that focuses on analysing data points distributed on a circle. Unlike conventional linear statistics, circular data is characterised by ...
Measurement shows that almost one-half of all market days are down days and slightly more are up days, but close enough to think of it as 50/50. Just as the probability of getting a long string of ...
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ...
If the risk of an event goes up or down, we assume that it will keep changing in that direction. Consider a weather forecast: If the probability of rain goes from 20% to 30%, many people then think it ...
Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
This course is available on the MRes in Management (Employment Relations and Human Resources), MRes in Management (Organisational Behaviour) and MSc in Quantitative Methods for Risk Management. This ...