Social Security beneficiaries receive an annual COLA based on average inflation rates from the prior year. This cost is rising faster than the annual COLA, and it cuts directly into many retirees' ...

Expected goals (xG) is a metric used to determine how likely a player is to score a chance and to calculate how many goals a team is expected to score in a match. The metric was invented in 2012 by ...

Expected value calculates average future investment returns based on outcome probabilities. In finance, expected value guides portfolio construction and when to sell assets with lower future value.

Positive expected value has emerged as a crucial tool for serious sports bettors. Casual bettors try to pick winners. Smart bettors find bets where odds favor them. This math-based approach treats ...

Alphabet's Google and OpenAI said their artificial-intelligence models won gold medals at a global mathematics competition, signaling a breakthrough in math capabilities in the race to build systems ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Four in 10 U.S. adults wish they learned more math skills in middle or high school, according to a new ...

More than 6 in 10 survey respondents say they expect their healthcare organizations to see higher revenue from value-based care arrangements this year than in 2024, according to a joint report from ...

I am not an analytics hater, quite the opposite, and I am (almost) always in favor of innovation in sports. I grew up playing baseball and I always found a lot of so-called conventional wisdom to be ...

Whether you’re a novice bettor or a seasoned veteran, you’ve almost certainly heard of positive expected value betting. After all, there are betting influencers and podcast hosts who talk about the ...

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Yasemin Copur-Gencturk receives funding from the NSF, IES, and Herman & Raseij Math Initiative. Ian Thacker receives funding from the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ...