Amazon has ordered its latest YA turn. The streamer has handed a greenlight to a series adaptation of The Probability of Miracles based on Wendy Wunder’s eponymous novel. It comes after Prime Video ...

Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

The odds of the U.S. economy slipping into a recession have grown in recent months, according to global financial services company UBS. In an analysis cited by Fortune, the global financial services ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Sampling isn’t just recycling old sounds—it’s a powerful form of musical storytelling that bridges generations, honors cultural legacy, and sparks innovation. Imagine sitting in your car, listening to ...

Conducting a poll isn’t an exact science. The process is susceptible to lots of common problems and baked-in biases — more than just the “margin of error.” By ...

This technical note covers household surveys with a focus on probability sampling, bias, and survey weights. It explains how households are selected in a representative way from a population for a ...

Abstract: In this paper we use stochastic sampling to obtain images from the probability distributions induced by well-known image coders SPIHT, JPEG, JPEG2000, and JPEG-LS. Our aim is to obtain ...