This is The Week in Data, our data journalism roundup. Here you’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet. Mass shootings: ...

NASA reports global sea levels have risen roughly 4 inches since 1993 and nearly 8 inches between 1900 and 2018. However, one social media user recently challenged the accuracy of sea-level rise ...

Circular statistics is a specialised subfield of statistics that focuses on analysing data points distributed on a circle. Unlike conventional linear statistics, circular data is characterised by ...

Research of the probability and statistics group includes particle systems, theoretical statistics, non-conventional random walks, random matrix theory, and random polynomials. Research interests also ...

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