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A new analysis looks not only at the number of years we can expect to live, but also at the number of years we can expect to live in good health. 
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A new study provides the best evidence to date that higher levels of income inequality in the United States actually lead to more deaths in the country over a period of years.
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In a new study, a team of physicists has used concepts from statistical physics to identify some characteristic behaviors of pre-bankrupt stocks that differ significantly from stocks that don't become bankrupt. The approach may eventually help investors forecast stock bankruptcies weeks or months in advance.
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Victor Yakovenko is an expert in statistical physics and studies how the flow of money and the distribution of incomes in American society resemble the flow of energy between molecules in a gas. Articles about MATHEMATICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=mathematics
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Explaining the science of random sampling and why it's possible to query a few hundred or thousand people to accurately determine the opinions of the general public...
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A study at the University of Alcalá, Spain has compared the employment crisis of 1991-1994 with the current crisis from 2007 to 2010, as well as the labour reforms that took place in 1994 and 2010 respectively.
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2011 has seen its fair share of stressful events, but the year was no more stressful than 2010, according to Gallup.
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Examination of a very popular popular-statistics series reveals avoidable errors
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From machine learning to data mining. From statistics to probability. A lot of it seems similar, so what are the differences? Statistician William Briggs explains in an FAQ.
lajarre's curator insight,
December 19, 2012 2:03 PM
Very good FAQ to get a quick grab on the terms you can hear around statistical data analytics. 
Aurélia-Claire Jaeger's curator insight,
December 20, 2012 4:33 AM
Une vision intéressante. Extrait (traduit, enfin j'espère à peu près bien) : "Qu'est ce que le "Big Data" ? - Ce que l'on veut que ce soit, des données qui ne sont pas petites, un mot éphémère à la mode, une reconnaissance du fait qu'il est difficile de stocker et d'accéder à des bases de données volumineuses, un faux espoir (avec néanmoins parfois, fugitivement, des vérités lumineuses) que si les caractéristiques infimes sont connues et conservées à la microseconde près, on arrivera à prévoir tout ce qui concerne cette espèce imprévisible : les êtres humains." 
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January 17, 2015 9:25 AM
Are you already a member of ONE COIN?
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Is the crowd is smarter than the individual. Is this a universal rule? Should we be leveraging this power more often?
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You only have to pick up an old novel to realize that people write very differently than they did 100 years ago, or even a couple generations ago. But is it possible to quantify those differences?
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When objects are arranged in an array from left to right, the central item jumps up and down and calls out to you "Pick me, pick me!" Well, not literally, but in a new study psychologists have provided further evidence for what's called the "Centre Stage effect" - our preferential bias towards items located in the middle.
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Could different jury sizes improve the quality of justice? The answers are not clear, but mathematicians are analyzing juries to identify potential improvements.
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Not all office romances end as awkward moments at the water cooler. In fact, more than a third end in a walk down the aisle.
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In contrast to traditional economic theory, which suggests people are inherently and rationally selfish, a wave of new social science and neuroscience data shows something quite different: that we are a pro-social storytelling species. As language emerged and evolved over the last million years, positive words, it seems, have been more widely and deeply engrained into our communications than negative ones.
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Nathan Green: Are crime rates really higher when there's a full moon?
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In “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant,” two scientists from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a colleague from Berkeley, argue that modern academic psychologists have so much flexibility with numbers that they can literally prove anything.
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