Maps are no longer just about navigating roads and borders, since they are increasingly being used as storytelling tools as well. Endless numbers and complicated data can be turned into something ...

Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...

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 ...

There is much interest in using magnetic resonance diffusion imaging to provide information on anatomical connectivity in the brain by measuring the diffusion of water in white matter tracts. Among ...

When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...

Two major goals in the study of biological systems are inference and prediction. Inference creates a mathematical model of the data-generation process to formalize understanding or test a hypothesis ...