From a statistical perspective, relationships among variables may take a broad array of forms. Sometimes, two variables may be unrelated to one another, such as (presumably) the scores on some college ...

The constellation of shapes and sizes among bacteria is as remarkable as it is mysterious. Why should Spirochaeta halophila resemble a bedspring coil, Stella a star and Clostridium cocleatum a partly ...

At the time of writing, the world is in the middle of a global pandemic that is causing untold miseries on hapless millions all over. Cutting across national boundaries, racial differences, wealth ...

This function is a simple two-dimensional example which occurs several times in the literature on computer experiments. Currin, C., Mitchell, T., Morris, M., & Ylvisaker, D. (1988). A Bayesian ...

What’s the greatest shortcoming of the human race? I’m sure we all have some suggestions, but according to physicist Albert Bartlett, it is “our inability to understand the exponential function.” ...

Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. Exponential growth looks like a jet taking ...