Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Last month we explored how to model a simple relationship between two variables, such as the dependence of weight on height 1. In the more realistic scenario of dependence on several variables, we can ...

The American Statistician strives to publish articles of general interest to the statistical profession on topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not highly ...