Mathematics

Science Of Cities: Why Do Crimes Like Rape Stay Linear With Population While Burglary Is Supercharged By City Size?

If you live in a city, your chances of being involved victim of a criminal act go up, and as cities grow in size, crime grows even faster. But not all crimes go up at the same rate.  Rape grows only linearly, at roughly the same pace as a city's popul ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2019 - 8:17am

Are Vampires Real? Physics Professor Drives Scientific Stake Into The Heart Of Supernatural Myths

As the weather cools and Halloween approaches, creaks in the stairs and scary stories become more believable-- but not to physics professor Costas Efthimiou. The laws of physics and math debunk popular myths about ghosts and vampires, according to a paper ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2019 - 10:01pm

Like Much Data From China, Their Voluntary Organ Donation Figures Are Nonsense; They're Using Prisoners Illegally

Communist dictatorships lack transparency, so if they don't want to be bound by the same ethical rules as everyone else, they won't be. Some in western countries gush about claims they make regarding solar power, for example, but only their CO2 e ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2019 - 2:20pm

A Mathematical Model To Describe Religious Beliefs

I recently presented a mathematical model to describe the evolution of the Holy Trinity from a system formed with differential equations that correspond to the God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Thanks to this, it was possible to obtain ...

Article - Raul Isea - Jan 24 2020 - 9:23am

Game Theory May Predict How To Reduce Panic Buying

During difficult times, we hope that everyone will pull together, keep calm, and work as a unit to ensure that society continues to run smoothly. Unfortunately, this is not always the case – as is particularly evident right now. ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 5 2020 - 12:06pm

Asymptomatic Worries: Sample Pooling Used In Blood Banking Will Boost Coronavirus Testing Capacity

Early on in this year's coronavirus pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, experts began to explore whether the pool testing approach used in blood banking could be adapted to increase testing capacity in coronavirus diagnostics and protect those with a high mortalit ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2020 - 10:17am

Should Any Current COVID-19 Estimates Be Used To Make Policy Decisions?

There is a popular saying in statistics- "Everyone believes the data except the collector. No one believes the model except the modeler." ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 8 2020 - 5:35pm

Modeling Chaos: How To Anticipate Riot Dynamics And Social Unrest

Is it possible to predict nonlinear behavior, such as when a protest will become a riot? Perhaps, though parameters bring special challenges. We've seen the weaknesses of numerical modeling when it comes to disease epidemiology, and many of those conc ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2020 - 10:59am

Genomic Selection And Economics: A Model To Predict The Best Crop

A new mathematical model seeks to predict economic performance of crops, which will allow breeders to obtain the plants with the highest possible quality.  Using even the most advanced legacy tools, it is very difficult to create a new variety of plants a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2020 - 9:17am

Poll Averaging Was No More Accurate In 2012 Than It Is Now

In 2012, the enthusiasm for poll averaging reached a fever pitch. Very few people were critical of it and instead talked about how science had taken over predictive politics. (1) I was critical of the accuracy and swam against the tide of those in media gu ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 5 2020 - 12:27pm