April 12, 2007 Robust statistical analysis methods capable of dealing with large complex data sets are required more than ever before in almost all branches of science. The European Science Foundation ...

Synthetic networks may increase the availability of some data while still protecting individual or institutional privacy, according to a Penn State statistician. "My key interest is in developing ...

Researchers from two universities in Europe have published a method they say is able to correctly re-identify 99.98% of individuals in anonymized data sets with just 15 demographic attributes. Their ...

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 ...

A clear big data definition can be difficult to pin down because big data can cover a multitude of use cases. But in general the term refers to sets of data that are so large in volume and so complex ...

Synthetic networks may increase the availability of some data while still protecting individual or institutional privacy, according to a statistician. Synthetic networks may increase the availability ...