Imagine we had a question: “Do men and women differ on X?” No matter what “X” is—height, empathy, knowledge of 13 th century Spanish history, or anything else—we know that any given man will be ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

What have we learned about the subject of statistics that will help the safety engineer do a better job? In a very practical sense, application of the techniques of inferential statistics can help the ...