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Stats Instructor Sets World Record for Highest Wingsuit Jump
Adjunct Instructor Aaron Smith, Ph.D., can calculate risk better than most people. Not only is he a statistician, but he currently holds the world record for highest wingsuit jump. Smith, a faculty member in the Department of Statistics and Data Science, set the record on July 1 by jumping from a plane at an altitude […]
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UCF Statistics Places Second at National Conference
Alumni, students and faculty from the University of Central Florida’s Department of Statistics were in Las Vegas earlier this month attending the 2016 Analytics Experience Conference. The conference was held from September 12 to 14 at the Bellagio hotel. The team of UCF statisticians placed second in the SAS analytics shootout competition– an event put […]
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Math Lecturer Leads Genes4Vaccines
Story by UCF I-Corps Vaccines save countless lives every year. But one of the biggest problems with vaccines is the length of time it takes to develop new ones – about 10 years. In human terms, that’s a significant duration. An I-Corps team at UCF is trying to do something about that delay. The team […]