The brain produces feelings of confidence that inform decisions the same way statistics pulls patterns out of noisy data. This feeling of confidence is central to decision making, and, despite ample ...

Geoff Cumming receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Such research findings sound exciting because the word significant suggests important and large. But researchers often use the word ...

A sequential fixed-width confidence interval for the mean of a U-statistic, having coverage probability approximately equal to preassigned α, is presented. The main result, Theorem 2, shows that the ...

A class of linear combinations of order statistics (LCOSs) based on a random sample drawn from an arbitrary distribution is represented as a sum of independent and identically distributed random ...

The directions, which came via cell phone, were a little garbled, but as you understood them: "Turn left at the 3rd light and go straight; the restaurant will be on your right side." Ten minutes ago ...

Human brains are constantly processing data to make statistical assessments that translate into the feeling we call confidence, according to a study published in Neuron. This feeling of confidence is ...