7 Is A Lucky Number, But Why?

7 Is A Lucky Number, But Why?

Football teams have been wearing numbers since Arsenal experimented with putting their players in numbered shirts in 1928 (it didn’t bring them much luck – they lost 3-2 to Sheffield Wednesday). But…
The Greenhouse Effect Fallacy

The Greenhouse Effect Fallacy

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903. It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure…
A Workshop On Applied Statistics

A Workshop On Applied Statistics

A Sino-Italian workshop on Applied Statistics was held today at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova. The organizers were Alessandra Brazzale and Alessandra Salvan from…
On Mathematical Models

On Mathematical Models

When a system is well understood, a well-constructed mathematical model of that system can make realistic predictions based on the data sets fed into it. However, when a system is not well-understood…