Statistics is a branch of math that involves the collection, description, analysis, and inference of conclusions from ...

ECONOMISTS develop economic models to explain consistently recurring relationships. Their models link one or more economic variables to other economic variables (see “What Are Economic Models,” F&D, ...

In recent years, a need for compact representations of databases has become apparent, for example in natural language understanding, machine learning, and decision making, accompanied by a need for ...

Statistical physics and message passing inference represent two interwoven strands of modern quantitative research. While statistical physics examines how macroscopic phenomena emerge from the ...