What is needed for plants to grow? How might you select which plants would be best to reforest a desert? How long do you think it might take to go from a desert to a forest? What positive and negative ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...

The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 583-599 (17 pages) Due to the irregularity of finite mixture models, the commonly used ...