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From satellites to the London Olympics, all in one career

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How to distinguish a machine from a human

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September 2008
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normal distribution

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As customers will tell you, overcrowding is a problem on trains. Fortunately, mathematical modelling techniques can help to analyse the changing demands on services through the day. Tim Gent explains.

Tags: operational research : peak load management : fuzzy logic : sensitivity analysis : normal distribution


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Harold Shipman could have been detected earlier by monitoring the death rates of his patients.

Tags: normal distribution : quality control : statistical process control


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Some spurious statistics

Tags: statistics : probability : risk analysis : statistical prediction : normal distribution : probability distribution : statistical estimation : statistical distribution : uncertainty : lottery : league table : binomial distribution : geometric distribution