A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for scientists and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The ...

IN a short review in NATURE of November 3 (p. 684) it is remarked that “The notation ln for 'log e ' will probably be somewhat strange to British readers”. You have full access to this article via ...

We prove the law of the iterated logarithm for a general class of M-estimators which covers in particular robust M-estimators and S-estimators of multivariate location-scatter. We also obtain an ...