DURING recent years there have been considerable developments in the application of modern statistical methods to the technical problems of industry and agriculture. The Council of the Royal ...

In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

This article deals with the problem of local sensitivity analysis, that is, how sensitive are the results of a statistical analysis to changes in the data? A general methodology of sensitivity ...

The paper presents a discussion on the compound statistical decision problem. The non-sequential decision problem is described generally, and a simple example of a particular compound rule is given.

This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...