Explore the importance of robust statistics like median and MAD in data analysis, ensuring accurate insights despite outliers ...

Somewhere back in your middle school and high school math classes, you no doubt learned about the mean and standard deviation as fairly fundamental concepts in arithmetic and statistics. You also knew ...

The extent to which products meet specifications needs to be systematically monitored in a production process. Product quality will typically be defined by two quantities: deviations from stated ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

Choosing a roster with Matt Schaub, Adrian Peterson, Jamal Lewis, and Chad Johnson might win you four or five weeks by a large margin, but you'll lose all the weeks those four put up single digits. In ...

The aim of this paper is: (i) to find the best linear estimates of the means and standard deviations of the rectangular, triangular, exponential and double exponential populations; (ii) to compare the ...

You may know your way around the registers of that favorite microcontroller, but at some point you’ll also need to wield some ninja-level math skills to manage arrays of data on a small device. [Scott ...