After distributing test kits to 60 randomly selected households in mid-June as part of a project aiming to replace all lead water lines, Blue Island officials say the results found no immediate ...

A new study found mothers with three or more children were more likely to have either all boys or all girls, challenging the traditional thinking that the probability is random and independent, like a ...

If you’ve been to Random Sample to see an art exhibition, or watch a live band, or even participate in a book club, you know just where to find its original home. It’s a white cinderblock building ...

In their simulated system, image data is first simplified using a process called principal component analysis (PCA), which reduces the amount of information while preserving key features. A complex ...

Joel Engardio holds a placard for Sunset Dunes at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Photo by Junyao Yang on April 12, 2025. A random sample of 549 of the 10,985 signatures yesterday submitted in the effort ...

A weighted random item sampler (selector), where the probability of selecting an item is proportional to its weight, and every item is sampled exactly once (without repetition or replacement). The ...

The mathematician Daniel Litt has driven social media users to distraction with a series of simple-seeming but counterintuitive probability puzzles. In late January, Daniel Litt posed an innocent ...

Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the effects of random sampling on adaptive diffusion networks. These networks consist in a collection of nodes that can measure and process data, and that can ...