Historians of science sometimes lament the fact certain historical figures are famous for the wrong reasons. Alan Turing (1912-54) is perhaps the best example of this phenomenon. Most people associate Turing with the breaking of an encryption device called the
If a scientist wanted to forecast ocean currents to understand how pollution travels after an oil spill, she could use a common approach that looks at currents traveling between 10 and 200 kilometers.
MIT researchers created a new measure, called the c-value, that helps statisticians and data scientists choose between estimation techniques based on the chance that a new method is more accurate for a specific dataset and application.