This research provides density functions and descriptive statistics for the distance between points for basic shapes in Cartesian space. Both Euclidean and Rectilinear Distances are determined for ...

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...

Meteorological data collected by some weather balloons has been halted. Statistics for HIV among transgender people were scrubbed from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. And ...

Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy. President Trump said he ousted the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the numbers produced by her agency were ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of payments. It's easy to forget that beneath the surface of every smart algorithm lies a surprisingly old ...

Racism in healthcare can have negative consequences for both those being treated and healthcare workers, leading to higher risks of illness and, in some cases, lower standards of care for people of ...

Forcibly displaced persons, including refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs), as well as stateless persons are frequently underrepresented or invisible in national data. However, realiable ...

Over the last couple years, the UHC-housed Big Cities Health Inventory has been publishing data on how health outcomes compare between big US cities. In one of their briefs, they used simple ...

Macy Alcido is a former writer for Forbes Health, based in New York City. She discovered her love for health reporting while attending the Columbia Journalism School, and has since contributed ...