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Statistics and Probability

The mathematics of uncertainty, inference, and probability.

Connects to Neuroscience2 Algorithms and Data Structures1 Condensed Matter Physics1 Econometrics1 Particle Accelerators and Detectors1
Almanac A Dead Salmon Reads Your Emotions
  • Why did a dead salmon appear to show brain activity in response to photographs of human emotion?
  • What statistical step, when skipped, causes spurious clusters of activity to appear in fMRI scans?
Almanac Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Coin Flips Later
  • What did the 2007 physics paper predict about a coin's tendency to land on the side it started on?
  • How did Bartoš and colleagues test the same-side coin-flip bias at a scale large enough to confirm it?
  • What landing bias did the study find across 350,757 coin flips, and how did it compare to the theoretical prediction?