If you ever took a programming module where you had to build an algorithm to compute something, you were most probably asked about its complexity. Well,...
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Historical Clinical Trials
Back in January, we had talks about different topics of research in the field of statistics, OR or statistics and OR in STOR-i. We were then...
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I remember my parents taking my brother and I to Pavilhão do Conhecimento, a science museum in Lisbon, to spend a day there at least once...
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If you’ve ever taken a statistics class, you might’ve been taught both the frequentist (or, as some call, classic) and Bayesian approaches to inference. But which...
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In February, we started the Masterclasses in the STOR-i programme and the second we had, called “Modelling with Stochastic Programming”, was given by Dr. Stein Wallace...
Continue reading...“Have you ever wondered if you made good decisions in your life?” – a role of O.R. in Music
The other day I was trying to imagine what my life would have been like if I had chosen to pursue a music degree instead of...
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Streaming services have become more and more common throughout the years. Particularly with the pandemic and the need to stay at home, most people turned to...
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