Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Bayesian statistics is an approach to data analysis based on Bayes’ theorem, where available knowledge about parameters in a statistical model is updated with the information in observed data. The ...

Long-range correlations in textual data refer to persistent dependencies between elements—words, characters or sentences—that extend across large spans of text. Unlike short-range associations ...

Microsoft Excel’s Data Analysis Toolpak is an invaluable add-in for those who require complex statistical or engineering analyses. This powerful feature allows users to execute a variety of data ...

Usually when it comes to writing, mathematics and statistics probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. However, quite the number of us have had to face an instance where a source based on ...

Menu Statistical Consulting Center Academics Opportunities and Resources Faculty Emeriti Data Analytics applies statistical and computational methods to specific fields of inquiry and decision-making.

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...