Statistical testing and lower bounds in distributed estimation constitute a rapidly evolving area that addresses both the design of robust tests for assessing data properties across networked systems ...

The moment you’ve produced a single numeric “estimate,” you’ve created a guess dressed in statistical clothing. As you add more estimates, your guess may become more or less respectable, but it ...

We show that error distributions of a compilation of 28 recent independent measurements of the distance from the Sun to the Galactic center, R₀, are wider than a ...