Statistics
More poor kids in more poor places, Carsey Institute finds
“Nearly 22 percent of America's children live in poverty, compared with 14 percent of the total population. Poverty is scattered and geographically…
No more tasty surprises: RUB mathematicians develop new statistical method
Prof. Dr. Holger Dette, Dr. Axel Bücher und Dr. Stanislav Volgushev from the Institute of Statistics (Faculty of Mathematics at the Ruhr-Universität) published…
1 million more children living in poverty since 2009, new census data released today shows
Between 2009 and 2010, one million more children in America joined the ranks of those living in poverty, bringing the total to an estimated 15.7 million poor…
New health insurance survey: 9 million adults joined ranks of uninsured due to job loss in 2010
An estimated nine million working-age adults—57 percent of people who had health insurance through a job that was lost—became uninsured in the last two years,…
Preterm Birth Rate Drops Three Percent
The nation’s preterm birth rate dropped for the second consecutive year. New nationwide statistics show a 3 percent decline in the preterm birth rate,…
Statistic Phenomenon on the Pitch: Often Two Players with the Same Birthday at the World Cup
Anyway, in more than half of the games at the World Cup 2006 at least two persons on the field had the same birthday. That is what Yanina Lyesnyak found out…