In 2009, Patricia Demauro held the dice at a craps table in Atlantic City for a record 154 rolls. Given the stakes involved, Ms. Demauro’s lucky streak doesn’t amount to much compared to the roll ...

Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

Fournier and Printems [Bernoulli 16 (2010) 343-360] have recently established a methodology which allows to prove the absolute continuity of the law of the solution of some stochastic equations with ...

The role of statistics and probability in business success How embracing the laws of probability and chance can help relieve the pressures we put on ourselves Business comes. Business goes. There are ...

The National Review: Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and director of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, noted the flawed logic in the argument that the ...

Congratulations to the Caltech Beavers. Over the weekend, they won their first NCAA basketball game since 1996. Beating out Bard College of New York 81-52, Caltech ended a 207-game losing streak. The ...

We consider a one-dimensional simple random walk surviving among a field of static soft obstacles: each time it meets an obstacle the walk is killed with probability 1 − e−β, where β is a positive and ...

From old problems like affirmative action to newer ones like the turn to algorithms in criminal justice and credit, law and private actions use group traits to influence or determine the treatment of ...

In 2009, Patricia Demauro held the dice at a craps table in Atlantic City for a record 154 rolls. Given the stakes involved, Ms. Demauro's lucky streak doesn't amount to much compared to the roll ...