Data in digital form is now widely available. From text and images posted to social networks to multi-modal medical records, from air quality sensor data to images gathered by telescopes in space, ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

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