A statistics lecturer who bucked his undergraduate math professor’s advice to never play the lottery ended up winning a $100,000 jackpot. Nicholas Kapoor, 26, of Monroe, Connecticut, won the $100,000 ...

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Three separate statistics articles by BYU professors recently won paper-of-the-year awards from three academic journals. The paper “A model for Antarctic surface mass balance and ice core site ...

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Statistics professor Gilbert Fellingham speaks to a BYU audience in the Marriott Center during his Nov. 9 devotional address. Fellingham taught his six rules for success with both a temporal and ...

Carnegie Mellon University faculty member Sivaraman Balakrishnan has received an Amazon Research Award. The Indian American statistics professor is with the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social ...

Roger Purves, professor emeritus at the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics, recently died at the age of 87. Purves was known in the statistics department for his unique sense of humor, welcoming ...

The article was updated March 5 to include the letter from high-tech executives supporting the Algebra II requirement. It also clarifies that AP Statistics is for students who have completed Algebra ...

Albert Madansky was a statistics professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School — now known as the U. of C.’s Booth School of Business — and also was a deputy dean as the school shifted its ...

Nicholas Kapoor, 26, teaches probability in his statistics courses. — -- A statistics lecturer who bucked his undergraduate math professor’s advice to never play the lottery ended up winning a ...