The Gaussian Q-function is a fundamental statistical tool that plays a pivotal role in the analytical assessment of error probabilities within communication systems ...

MacKenzie is a very smart sociologist, who understands quants and copula functions much more deeply than I ever did. (And, like most journalists, I forgot nearly all of what I ever knew about them ...

Wall Street's wild swings last week helped skew both retirement portfolios and mathematical models of the financial markets. After all, a standard Gaussian function—a bell curve—would predict that ...