normal distribution
As customers will tell you, overcrowding is a problem on trains. Fortunately,
mathematical
modelling techniques can help to analyse the changing demands on services
through the day. Tim Gent explains.
Tags: operational research : peak load management : fuzzy logic : sensitivity analysis : normal distribution
Harold Shipman could have been detected earlier by monitoring the death rates
of his patients.
Tags: normal distribution : quality control : statistical process control
Some spurious statistics
Tags: statistics : probability : risk analysis : statistical prediction : normal distribution : probability distribution : statistical estimation : statistical distribution : uncertainty : lottery : league table : binomial distribution : geometric distribution
Chess versus sumo
Tags: normal distribution : probability distribution : chess : rating : mathematics in sport
