Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

The government shutdown delayed the jobs report and may postpone other key economic data. Here is what economists are looking ...

Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and the economy. Imagine living in a country where you can’t trust the government’s numbers. I don’t have to imagine it. I spent time ...