The authors of this paper, statistics professors at Bryant University, recently had the opportunity to act as expert witnesses in a case involving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as the plaintiff. The IRS used some sampling techniques in selecting a random sample that did not appropriately represent the population at hand. This action led the IRS to draw inferences about the population that ...

Is human thought fully embedded in language, or do some forms of thought operate independently? To directly address this issue, we focus on inference-making, a central feature of human cognition. In a 3T fMRI study we compare logical inferences relying on sentential connectives (e.g., not, or, if ... then) to linguistic inferences based on syntactic transformation of sentences involving ditrans...

We investigate the problem of inferring the packet loss characteristics of Internet links using server-based measurements. Unlike much of existing work on network tomography that is based on active probing, we make inferences based on passive observation of end-to-end client-server traffic. We start with a brief analysis of end-to-end packet loss rate over widearea Internet paths, as observed f...

We consider a mixed boundary value problem for a quarter-plane with a Robin condition on one edge. We have developed two procedures, one based on the advanced theory of dual integral equations and the other, in our opinion simpler technique, relying on conformal mapping. Both of the procedures are of interest, because the former may be easier to adapt to other boundary value problems.

Camera trap surveys exclusively targeting features of the landscape that increase the probability of photographing one or several focal species are commonly used to draw inferences on the richness, composition and structure of entire mammal communities. However, these studies ignore expected biases in species detection arising from sampling only a limited set of potential habitat features. In t...

Is human thought fully embedded in language, or do some forms of thought operate independently? To directly address this issue, we focus on inference making, a central feature of human cognition. In a 3T fMRI study we compare logical inferences relying on sentential connectives (e.g., not, or, if..then..) to linguistic inferences based on syntactic transformation of sentences involving ditransi...