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Direct linkMarek Arendarczyk; Tomasz J. Kozubowski; Anna K. Panorska – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2023
We provide tools for identification and exploration of data with very large variability having power law tails. Such data describe extreme features of processes such as fire losses, flood, drought, financial gain/loss, hurricanes, population of cities, among others. Prediction and quantification of extreme events are at the forefront of the…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Probability, Regression (Statistics), Statistical Analysis
Young, Nicholas T.; Caballero, Marcos D. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
One argument for keeping the physics Graduate Record Exam (GRE) is that it can help applicants who might otherwise be missed in the admissions process stand out. In this work, we evaluate whether this claim is supported by physics graduate school admissions decisions. We used admissions data from five Ph.D.-granting physics departments over a…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study, College Applicants, Selective Admission
