Introduction Have you ever heard anyone say the chance of something happening is “50–50”? What does that actually mean? This phrase has something to do with probability. Probability tells you how ...

Statistics is the science of analyzing data; the use of statistics is ubiquitous in science, engineering, medicine and epidemiology, marketing, and many other application areas. Probability theory ...

University of Glasgow provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Some of my earliest football memories come from the 1994 World Cup, when my dad helped four-year-old me complete the ...