In sample surveys estimates are often required for subclasses of the population. The usual results assume that the domain numbers, M i, are either known exactly or completely unknown. The case where ...

Five decades have passed since Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling first proposed the molecular clock hypothesis. The molecular clock has become an essential tool in evolutionary biology, from ...

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Here’s our estimate of public support for vouchers, broken down by religion/ethnicity, income, and state: (Click on image to see larger version.) We’re mapping estimates from a hierarchical Bayes ...

The Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 8, No. 2 (June 2014), pp. 852-885 (34 pages) Poverty maps are used to aid important political decisions such as allocation of development funds by governments ...

Nate Silver, baseball statistician turned political analyst, gained a lot of attention during the 2012 United States elections when he successfully predicted the outcome of the presidential vote in ...