I have been intrigued by some spots airing recently on local radio stations: “Support for this WBEZ program is provided by Yellow Cab, whose diverse drivers have been serving Chicagoland since 1915.

Bootstrap percolation, a model of irreversible activation on graphs, has emerged as a pivotal area within graph theory and statistical mechanics. In this process, nodes (or vertices) on a network are ...

As Iowa moved to ban the teaching of critical race theory, a state-run education support agency held workshops for teachers about the controversial topic that included a graphic that listed former ...

String theory suggests that the most fundamental building blocks of the universe are not particles like electrons or quarks, but tiny, vibrating strings of energy. It is the vibration and arrangement ...

A general formula for computing the breakdown point (in robustness) for the tth bootstrap quantile of a statistic T n is obtained. The answer depends on t and the breakdown point of T n. Since the ...

We propose a new method, based on sample splitting, for constructing bootstrap confidence bounds for a parameter appearing in the regular smooth function model. It has been demonstrated in the ...