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Market Madness: Cinderellas Boost Ratings More than National Powerhouses

By BYU News
July 26, 2013 12:03 PM
Most pro basketball fans would assume that TV executives want to see teams from the largest markets go the furthest in the playoffs. But in college basketball, however, the most fans tune in for teams they probably hadn’t heard of a month ago.
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BYU Gets Another Hall of Famer

By BYU News
July 03, 2013 02:08 PM
Shane Reese’s career sounds like a boyhood dream: full of sports, bombs, race cars and space exploration.
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Probability of Success Goes Up with Mentor

By Curtis Penfold
May 30, 2013 01:14 PM
What are the odds of an undergraduate student being able to write a research paper in statistics that involves computational and mathematical analysis?
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Predicting the President: Exit Polling

By Brian Shaw
December 04, 2012 01:21 PM
“Where’s group 108?” shouted David Sturgess, a student volunteer for the Utah Colleges Exit Polls, as he and his student team tried to keep track of hundreds of students reporting survey results on election day at the exit poll headquarters on BYU campus.
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BYU Students Awarded NSF Fellowships

By Alysa Kleinman
July 13, 2012 11:53 AM
What does Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, have in common with four students from the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences?
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Student Research Contributes to Advancement in Genetics

By Katie Pitts
July 27, 2011 02:24 PM
Right here on campus, statistics students are getting the chance to make an impact not only in their own field, but also in medicine and perhaps in the lives of people everywhere.
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Heating Things up in Statistics

By Alysa Kleinman
June 06, 2011 02:38 PM
Global climate change seems to cause a heated debate nearly every day in Congress. Many argue about its origins and effects without knowing that most of the research involved in understanding global climate change requires statistics.
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Building Bridges: From Whales to Baseball

By Erik Westesen
March 24, 2011 01:43 PM
During a lecture from a statistics professor, BYU honors students learned how statistics can be used to travel through time, and even save the whales.
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Saving Money: Is It Worth It?

By Natalie Rice
February 21, 2011 01:51 PM
What would you be willing to do to save a few bucks? Scott Grimshaw, a faculty member in the Statistics Department, tackled some massive amounts of sales tax data to determine what influences taxpayers as they decide where to make their purchases.
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Poll Results Come Courtesy of Stats Students

By Justin Ritter
December 03, 2010 12:55 PM
On the morning of November’s midterm election, Utah’s political campaigns died down as candidates waited for the votes to come in. But for a team of Brigham Young University students, the work was just beginning.
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Statistical Center Aids in Research

By Meghan Fletcher
October 15, 2010 12:58 PM
For professors and graduate students looking for help with data analysis in their research, the Department of Statistics’ Center for Statistical Consultation and Collaborative Research affords a resource for academic research and analysis with help from the experts.
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Statistics Increase Volleyball Victory

By Natalie Rice
August 09, 2010 01:01 PM
Knowing which skills to develop and use is a key element to an athlete’s success. Gilbert Fellingham, a faculty member in the Department of Statistics, recently published an article in the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports that answered such questions as: Which skills matter most for women volleyball athletes? What is most important: hitting or passing?
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Stats Professor Promotes Alternative Research Method

By Natalie Rice
July 29, 2010 01:03 PM
Man’s curiosity has driven him to question and experiment for thousands of years. Through trial and error, standard research methods have evolved that are now an integral part of most science classes. However, some lesser-known techniques have also proven effective.
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Professor Uses Stats to Help Increase Potato Yield

By Natalie Rice
June 10, 2010 02:05 PM
The study of statistics influences various fields, though usually behind the scenes. Its role in farming is particularly important. Dennis Eggett, an associate professor in the Department of Statistics, recently analyzed the yields of russet potatoes in relation to the amount of fertilizer used.
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Stats Professor Brings Understanding Through Prediction Models

By Katie Pitts
February 23, 2010 01:09 PM
You can take the long, hard, and expensive way, or use statistics. That may seem contrary to most students struggling through their first stats class, but statisticians actually work within many disciplines, applying their predictions in order to save time and money.
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CPMS Researchers Assist in Groundbreaking Medical Advancement

By Steve Pierce
December 23, 2009 02:11 PM
Four faculty members from the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences have assisted in the development of a groundbreaking new silicon microchip that reliably detects viruses.
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Triple Play: Three BYU studies in Top Science Journal

By CPMS News
December 04, 2009 02:13 PM
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, regarded as one of the top three scientific journals in the world, published three separate studies in one week authored or co-authored by Brigham Young University professors.
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