The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

This paper reviews the range of graphical methods available for use with nonparametric procedures, and provides examples of the use of many of the methods under the broad groupings: two-sample ...

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Biological systems often struggle to maintain stable outputs at the single-cell level under noise. Here, authors introduce a noise controller that, when combined with antithetic integral feedback, ...

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Computational models are mathematical models used to numerically study the behaviour of complex systems by means of a computer simulation. A computational model can be used to make predictions of the ...

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