Earth may be home to 3x more insect species than scientists thought

Insects may be even more dominant on Earth than scientists thought. A new estimate suggests the planet could hold 14 million ...
Canada

Social cost of greenhouse gas emissions

The social cost of greenhouse gas (SC-GHG) estimates include: the social cost of carbon (SCC), the social cost of methane (SCM), and the social cost of nitrous oxide (SCN). Each SC-GHG is a measure of ...
IEEE

Stochastic Optimal Power Flow in Hybrid Power System Using Reduced-Discrete Point Estimation Method and Latin Hypercube Sampling

Abstract: Stochastic nature of some input variables dictates the requisite of probabilistic analysis in power systems operation and planning. Wind generation is considered as a main source of ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

The Distribution of School Spending Impacts

We examine all known “credibly causal” studies to explore the distribution of the causal effects of public K-12 school spending on student outcomes in the United States. For each of the 31 included ...
GitHub

Sparse InversE Covariance estimation for Ecological Association and Statistical Inference

This package will be useful to anybody who wants to infer graphical models for all sorts of compositional data, though primarily intended for microbiome relative abundance data (generated from 16S ...
Investopedia

What Is a Confidence Interval and How Do You Calculate It?

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Investopedia

Sampling Distribution: Definition, How It's Used, and Example

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more ...
ons.gov.uk

Income estimates for small areas, England and Wales: financial year ending 2023

For Middle-layer Super Output Areas (also known as local areas or small areas), mean equivalised household disposable (net) income, before housing costs, ranged from £20,800 to £107,600 in the ...
The Indian Express

India’s elephant numbers fall by 18% to 22,446 – but Centre says ‘not comparable’ to past estimate

Elephant Population in India 2025: India’s Asian elephant population is estimated to be 22,446, according to the results of the much-delayed Synchronous All India Elephant Estimation (SAIEE) 2021–25, ...
Pew Research Center

How Pew Research Center Uses Its National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS)

In 2020, Pew Research Center launched a new project called the National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS). NPORS is an annual, cross-sectional survey of U.S. adults. Respondents can answer by ...
GitHub

Prior Choice Recommendations

Flat prior (not usually recommended); Super-vague but proper prior: normal(0, 1e6) (not usually recommended); Weakly informative prior, very weak: normal(0, 10); Generic weakly informative prior: ...