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Data collected by private companies can give us unique insight into the economy, but it’s not a substitute for the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Data mining uses statistical techniques to discover correlations between different factors and variables in large data sets, according to Yale University Professor Ian Ayres, author of "Super ...

The Durbin Watson statistic is a number that tests for autocorrelation in the residuals from a statistical regression analysis.

You can’t run a country, or any organization, without reliable data, and firing the head of a statistics agency because you ...

Statistical Science, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Nov., 2004), pp. 652-662 (11 pages) Quantile and conditional quantile statistical thinking, as I have innovated it in my research since 1976, is outlined in this ...

Three familiar examples are discusses: the choice between Normal based and non-parametric methods, the use of multiple-comparison procedures, and the choice of sums of squares for main effects in ...