David Draper, professor of statistics, passed away on May 8, 2024. He died peacefully among friends and family after a short hospitalization. The immediate cause was aspiration pneumonia. An expert in ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new draft guidance modernizing statistical methodologies used in clinical trials, formally recognizing ...

In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

Ernest Fokoué is a professor of statistics at Rochester Institute of Technology in the School of Mathematical Sciences. His research interests include statistical learning theory, bayesian statistics, ...

Scientists have developed a method to identify symmetries in multi-dimensional data using Bayesian statistical techniques. Bayesian statistics has been in the spotlight in recent years due to ...

Harrison Zhou, newly named as the Henry Ford II Professor of Statistics and Data Science, conducts his research on asymptotic decision theory, high dimensional statistics, large covariance matrices ...

Symmetries in nature make things beautiful; symmetries in data make data handling efficient. However, the complexity of identifying such patterns in data has always bedeviled researchers. Scientists ...