Racial profiling can be broadly defined as a practice in law enforcement based on the belief that a person's category membership (e.g., ethnicity, national origin) functions as an indicator of ...

Physicians tend to excel in science and math, so it's a bit surprising that, in a new study, nearly 8 in 10 ― 78% ― committed a gaffe called the conjunction fallacy. Researchers asked doctors to ...

Journal of Applied Probability, Vol. 54, No. 1 (MARCH 2017), pp. 12-22 (11 pages) In this paper we deal with an optimal stopping problem whose objective is to maximize the probability of selecting k ...