Expectiles are a coherent and elicitable alternative to commonly used market risk measures, but practical backtesting tools have lagged behind. This study proposes new backtests that separate ...

Background Socioeconomic exposures related to anaemia in Peruvian children have been modelled assuming additive or log-additive relationships, yet such approaches overlook the fact that illness ...

One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

As social media becomes the core domain of information interaction in the era of big data, the emotional information contained in the vast amount of user-generated content provides an unprecedented ...

A recent study conducted by a King’s College London professor, Kenneth Payne, found that ...

An increasing number of people worldwide are affected by autism spectrum disorder (ASD); according to studies, one in 44 ...

It’s getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

Introduction Cigarette companies have stated their intent to transition from selling cigarettes to selling less harmful products, such as e-cigarettes. We examine trends in US cigarette marketing ...

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and ...

BACKGROUND: Forecasts for the future prevalence of cardiovascular disease and stroke are crucial to guide efforts to improve health outcomes across the life course for women. METHODS: Using historical ...