Statistical Science

Meet some of the researchers who are making sense of messy death records in Syria. Photo taken in Aleppo, Syria, March 2013. Courtesy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

September 17, 2018

Making Sense of Syria's Murky Death Toll

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Duke professors Peter Hoff and Sayan Mukherjee have been named Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).

June 27, 2018

Duke Professors Named Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

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Algorithms And Justice -- Scrapping The ‘Black Box’

February 14, 2018

Cynthia Rudin: Algorithms And Justice -- Scrapping The ‘Black Box’

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Duke researchers are teaching computers to compose new classical music in the style of Romantic-era composers like Chopin and Beethoven. Photo from Pixabay.com

December 14, 2017

Can We Teach Computers to Make Like Mendelssohn?

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Hau-tieng Wu, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of mathematics and statistical science who joined the Duke University faculty in 2017. Photo by Megan Mendenhall, Duke Photography.

October 17, 2017

Hau-tieng Wu: Vital Signs

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With an iPhone app called MS Mosaic, people living with MS can track how they’re doing between doctor’s visits, uncover patterns and share their information with their healthcare team.

October 3, 2017

iPhone App Could Guide MS Research, Treatment

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Many states make decisions about sentencing, bail, probation and parole based on secret computer algorithms, but how they work is a mystery. Duke’s Cynthia Rudin says it doesn’t have to be that way.

July 19, 2017

Opening the Lid on Criminal Sentencing Software

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Duke research yields new data about energy efficiency program slated for elimination

June 26, 2017

Energy Program on Chopping Block, But Study Says It Works

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Corey Vernot: My favorite Duke memory is watching Duke beat UNC this year with my friends in Cameron.

May 8, 2017

Corey Vernot: Making Statistics Work Across Many Fields

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More than 350 data geeks swarmed Bostock Library this weekend for a 48-hour number-crunching competition called DataFest. Photo by Loreanne Oh, Duke University.

April 6, 2017

At DataFest 2017, Data Geeks Go Head to Head

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Meerkats at the Kuruman River Reserve in Northern Cape, South Africa. Photo by Jenny Tung.

March 23, 2017

Researchers Win $1.2M to Study Social Mobility in Meerkats

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An MRI technique called diffusion tensor imaging traces the bundles of nerve fibers that carry electrical signals between different areas of the brain. Image by Thomas Schultz, Wikimedia Commons

February 20, 2017

Creative People Have Better-Connected Brains

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February 15, 2017

Dunson Awarded Carnegie Centenary Professorship

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For Peter Hoff, statistics is an avenue through which he can learn about different types of science. Photo by John Joyner/Duke Photography

October 2, 2016

Peter Hoff: Reckoning With Big Data to Tease Out Network Patterns

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Portrait of Duke Professor Peter Hoff

September 30, 2016

Peter Hoff: Reckoning with Big Data

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March 16, 2016

New Collaborative Seed Grant Program Gives Eight Awards

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