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Trump’s pick to lead statistics agency disputes president’s faked data claims

Thursday Night Mowing League wants 40 million Americans to stop wasting weekends on their lawns

Thursday Night Mowing League is a grassroots cultural movement encouraging Americans to mow on Thursdays so weekends stay wide open for relaxation.…

Hospitality jobs boom as US prepares for World Cup

It is the third month in a row US jobs figures have beaten expectations.…

Husic says Labor pile-on after Aukus criticism ‘not healthy’ – as it happened

This blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Jim Chalmers ’ budget bill will face debate and a vote in the House today, and he poses the leg…

Nigeria records $10.37bn capital importation in Q1 2026, up 83.83% — NBS

The figure represents significant growth compared to both the corresponding period of 2025 and the preceding quarter, driven largely by portfolio investments. The post Nigeria reco…

NYC hate crimes up 70% with another troubling spike in antisemitic attacks: data

The NYPD celebrated historic lows in violent crimes — but hidden in the news stats is a troubilng trend that has seen hate crimes spiking again.…

St Louis Cardinals Players’ Closest Comparisons

Today I would like to take a look at who Baseball Savant’s statcast evaluation style compares our current favorite baseball players to. We will use a Savant tool to show a Cardinal…

Did Jacob Misiorowski just have the best month ever for a Brewers pitcher?

Or: Respect Teddy Higuera…

Understanding Linear Regression: A Foundation of Machine Learning

Linear Regression is one of the most fundamental and widely used algorithms in Machine Learning and...…

Why Your LLM Agent Gives a Different P-Value Every Time (And What to Build Instead)

How LLM-driven statistical analysis silently produces non-reproducible results, and a design pattern (claims ledger + deterministic plugins) that fixes it.…

AI revolution and consumer spending give economy a lift

Private business investment jumped by 6 per cent in the March quarter, driven by a 30-year-high increase in machinery and equipment, much of which is used to build data centres.…

About 3 million workers on minimum wage to receive 4.75% pay rise in Fair Work Commission ruling

Unions had demanded 6% pay increase for lowest paid after war in Middle East pushed inflation higher Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news em…

Why "Dark Output", the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history (SemiAnalysis)

SemiAnalysis : Why “Dark Output”, the AI-generated economic value that is currently invisible to national statistics, may be one of the hardest measurement problems in history — Wh…

Why Deep Learning Works Even Though It Shouldn't

Why models always get better when they are bigger and deeper, even when the amount of data they consume stays the same or gets smaller.…

Four in 10 cancer cases in Karnataka linked to tobacco use, shows Kidwai data

Nearly four out of every 10 cancer cases reported in Karnataka are linked to tobacco use, according to estimates from the State-run Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO) ahe…

I Built CausalLens — A Free, Open-Source Causal Impact Calculator for Time Series (5 Methods, Zero Setup)

I want to show you a tool I just open-sourced. It's called CausalLens, and it answers one specific...…

Feynman diagrams without any physics

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Five million children die every year – what do they die from?

To reduce child mortality, we need to understand what children are dying from.…

4月石油統計速報 日本の原油輸入量は1989年以降最少に

【NHK】資源エネルギー庁が29日発表した「石油統計速報」によりますと、先月、日本に輸入された原油は407万キロリットルで、去年の同じ月より65％減りました。原油の輸入量は統計を公表している1989年以降、最も…

The fall of entry-level jobs and the rise of a ‘bedroom generation’: Key takeaways from youth unemployment review

Alan Milburn’s review of youth unemployment lays bare the scale of the crisis affecting Britain’s young people. Here, The Independent runs through the report’s key findings…

Caitlin Clark’s surprising placement in new WNBA stat sparks major debate

This was a surprising oine.…

Pitfalls of Estimating Parameters from Aggregates

One of the most common mistakes in data analysis is treating observed aggregates as if they are the parameters themselves. Observed data is not the parameter — it is the result of …

Learning From Pairwise Preferences: An Introduction to the Bradley Terry Model

How to Turn Simple Head-to-Head Choices Into Probabilistic Rankings…

90% of the T Distribution

Poverty Bayes: fitting million-parameter models for pennies with serverless MCMC

Fitting a million-parameter Bayesian model on Modal with PyMC and NumPyro…

Israel shares country's Muslim education statistics, notes female population's progress

The statistics show that female Muslim students outnumber their male counterparts by more than double in enrollment for their first university degree.…

Incanter: A Clojure-based R-like platform for statistical computing and graphics

Cybersecurity statistics of the week (May 18th - May 24th)

False Precision in Science

Here is a troubling scenario that plays out more often than scientists would like to admit: a...…

AI may be fuelling U.S. business creation, but few signs of a similar trend in Canada

Wider adoption of artificial intelligence south of the border is coinciding with an uptick in new business formation…

Computer Systems Design and Related Services Employment Statistics

Monday assorted links

1. Sampling DNA from animal skin parchments. 2. The making of Indian statistics. 3. What happens if your iPhone is stolen in London? (NYT) 4. Brazil school phone bans: “We then sho…

College football's 26 mind-blowing stats for 2026: Returning production, trends and hidden insights

From impressive streaks to dubious distinctions, keep an eye on these numbers in the fall…

Karnataka: Planning and Statistics Department re-allocated

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah re-allocates the Planning and Statistics Department to Minister K. Venkatesh following D. Sudhakar's death.…

Who made Opta's team of the season?

Data analyst Opta looks at the numbers to provide its own Premier League team of the season.…

Don't know where your data is from? Bayesian modeling for unknown coordinates

A PyMC Gaussian process example with uncertain spatial coordinates…

How to Mathematically Choose the Optimal Bins for Your Histogram

Optimal Resolution in Histograms: A Rigorous Bayesian Approach to Density Fitting…

Gen Z drivers are car-azy behind the wheel: study compares US states

A new study that analyzed data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows Gen Z drivers are involved in twice as many serious auto crashes across the US, and bre…

The Making of Indian Statistics

How Mahalanobis Counted India's Aspirations…

Jensen–Shannon Divergence

Higher fuel prices tied to Iran war boost March retail sales: Statistics Canada

The agency says retail sales rose 0.9 per cent to $72.7-billion in March…

Guesstimate

Deaths in India remain above pre-Covid rate, fertility rate below replacement: SRS report

The somewhat worrying trend in the crude death rate is that it remains above the level of 6 seen in 2019 and 2020. | India News…

4月の消費者物価指数 去年同月比1.4％上昇

【NHK】家庭で消費するモノやサービスの値動きをみる先月・4月の消費者物価指数は、天候による変動が大きい生鮮食品を除いた指数が去年の同じ月より1.4％上昇しました。 上昇率は前の月の1.8％から0.4ポイント…

WNBA faces an odd statistic. Home teams have only won 29% of games

Playing at home hasn't provided much comfort for WNBA teams this season. Out of the 15 teams, only New York has a winning record at home. This is the worst percentage to start a …

Wage gaps can make relationships complicated. We want to help you talk about them

It’s common for one partner to earn significantly more than the other, and this can lead to problems when major financial decisions arise…

Fantasy Baseball: 'Avoid selling high' on CJ Abrams — skill vs. luck verdicts for key hitters

Fantasy baseball analyst Corbin Young is back to look under the hood of some key hitting stat lines this season.…

STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Lilly obesity drug trial, statistics for an Alzheimer’s drug, and more

Eli Lilly reported that in a late-stage trial, its next-generation obesity drug led to weight loss approaching the effectiveness seen with bariatric surgery…

Net Migration Falls to 171,000 as Asylum Seekers Continue to Rise

Net migration fell to 171,000 last year, according to the Office for National Statistics. The lowest since 2021... The number of people claiming asylum in…

Net migration to the UK drops below 200,000

Fewer people coming to the UK for work has driven big drop in net migration to 171,000 in year ending December 2025…

Bitcoin's Power Law: Weak Structure, Strong Forecasts

Bitcoin's price has been described as following a power law (PL) in time, $P \sim t^β$ with $\hatβ\approx 5.7$ over 2010-2026. We test this claim using the Clauset-Shalizi-Newman p…

Then vs Now. Kimi Antonelli’s list of statistics has certainly increased since the last time we visited Canada, where the then-rookie picked up his first F1 podium!

Zambia and Angola announce rate cuts, boosting the construction industry

Policymakers also revealed favourable weather conditions, stronger copper prices, and improving macroeconomic stability as key positive drivers for Zambia’s economy.…

More Stupid Medium Stats Tricks

I’ve written before about how Medium stats are just obviously broken in some way, that the stats are not useful for finding anything out……

OpenAI Wins Elon Musk Lawsuit: Jury Rules in Favor of ChatGPT Maker | 2026 - News and Statistics - IndexBox

Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.…

Minimax Optimal Variance-Aware Regret Bounds for Multinomial Logistic MDPs

We study reinforcement learning for episodic Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) whose transitions are modelled by a multinomial logistic (MNL) model. Existing algorithms for MNL mixt…

The small sample trap in A/B testing

The small sample trap in A/B testing…

When GBase 8a Execution Plans Go Wrong: Mastering Statistics Management

A simple SQL suddenly triggers a full table scan, or a JOIN order looks completely off. Most of the...…

Youth Unemployment Reaches 11-Year High

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show that unemployment has risen to 5% in a weakening job market. The picture is even worse for the…

'AI' Could Lead to a Rise in Research Slop

GenAI may make statistical abuse much easier to implement.…