With years of data from professional Dota 2 in our hands, we take a look at closely games adhere to a normal distribution, also known as the bell curve. If you have been through a basic statistics ...

This column is the fourth in a series on parameter estimation, leading up to the justly famous Kalman filter. The discipline is based on the fact that our knowledge of the state of any real-world ...

The normal curve isn't just a dry, academic concept. It’s everywhere around us, helping us make sense of the world. The normal curve appears in many aspects of daily life. For example, heights of ...