International Year of Statistics
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Statistics — the science of learning from data and of measuring, controlling, and communicating uncertainty — has powerful and far-reaching effects on everyone, yet most people are unaware of how it improves their lives.
2013 is the International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013). NCSES is participating in Statistics2013 to help highlight the contributions of the statistics field. By joining with more than 1,400 organizations in 111 countries in this awareness campaign, NCSES hopes to increase the public’s understanding of the impact statistics has on all aspects of society and to promote statistics as a profession.
NCSES is a federal statistical agency providing data and information on the nation’s research and development activities, its science and engineering workforce, and U.S. competitiveness in science, engineering, technology, and R&D. For more information on the International Year of Statistics, visit www.statistics2013.org.
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Events at NSF
January 25, 2013, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Stafford I, Room 375 - Save the Date
Dr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Polytechnic Institute of New York, Oxford University, advisor of IMF), author of The Black Swan (3 million copies in 32 languages) Details
Everything in life has nonlinear responses, from medical treatments to project management, for both benefits and harm (medical and economic iatrogenics). The talk introduces the concept of fragility and antifragility and maps them to nonlinearities in life and decision making. We propose methods of detection of fragility and antifragility based on either a) the convexity of the response or b) the shape of the probability distribution of outcomes (asymmetry between gains and harm). The presentation is adapted from Taleb's recent book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
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