Sarah never smiled in my classroom. At least not with her eyes. She spoke under her breath. Whispers of words I couldn’t usually hear. She is one of the many students who I remember because despite my ...

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This article addresses a gap in many, if not all, introductory mathematical statistics textbooks, namely, transforming a random variable so that it better mimics a normal distribution. Virtually all ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say they have now found a way to significantly enhance the accuracy of key information on how heat affects the stability of ...

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