Just a dozen days before David Stearns addressed the media prior to Tuesday’s game against Atlanta, the Mets had the best record in the sport, were winners of six in a row and held a seemingly ...

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck. By David Spiegelhalter. Pelican; 512 pages; £22. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in March; $32.99 A hazard of ...

Simply collecting data is not enough. You can fill spreadsheets with data, but it's useless if you can't act on it. Regression is one of the most powerful statistical tools for finding relationships ...

When you perform regression analysis in Microsoft Excel, you are engaging in a statistical process that helps you understand the relationship between variables. This technique is particularly useful ...

“Computer, analyse.” In science fiction, characters don’t need programming skills to extract meaningful information from their data, they simply ask for it. Now a growing number of companies are ...