In Chen and Chiang [2] and Chen, Thompson and Hung [3], the symmetric trimmed mean has been shown, for various linear models, to have the efficiency of having ...

It could be argued that there is no right or wrong way to eat a slice of pizza. However, according to a 19th century mathematician the only way to devour a cheesy slice is to fold it in a U-shape.

If indices are to be used as the variables predicted by linear statistical models, it is important to be able to recover as much local information as possible from the values forecast for the indices.

Carl Friedrich Gauß knew a thing or two about how numbers work and how the universe goes about its business (Picture: Getty) Today Google is honouring maths genius Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß with its ...