In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

Finding a convincing explanation of a complex issue is no easy task. The decision about what qualifies as the "best" solution is inevitably subject to biases and approximations. Coupling statistics ...

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 ...

Random constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) form a class of models in which a collection of discrete variables is subject to a set of randomly generated constraints. Inspired by paradigms in ...

This article deals with the theory of genetic changes in natural populations. It does not review the extensive and rapidly growing body of experimental and observational data, but is restricted to the ...