A study by the universities of Cordoba and Seville develops a method that makes it possible to verify, easily and quickly, whether an olive plantation is traditional, intensive, or super-intensive.

Every electronic circuit has some noise and it can affect both analog and digital circuits. Some noise comes from outside interference while some comes from random factors such as thermal effects.

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True experiments, unlike anecdotal evidence, often require random sampling and random assignment. In this post, I try to explain the importance of random sampling; in my next post, I will explore ...

Statistics is a branch of math that involves the collection, description, analysis, and inference of conclusions from quantitative data. But what is a statistic? Let’s find out. The word statistic is ...

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