Run the simulation a few times and look at the different values that you get for the three different measures of how the actual distribution varies from the Benford's Law predicted distribution for the two different scenarios. Random numbers are random: The statistics won't al...
U.S. officials along the border with Mexico processed migrants 183,503 times in July, as illegal crossings jumped by 33% after dropping to a two-year low in June despite record high heat levels, according to government statistics published Friday. Border Patrol agents recorded 132,652 ...
Children and teens crossing by themselves rose 60% from this January to more than 9,400 in February, according to the most recent statistics released publicly by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The Health and Human Services Department plans to open shelter facilities at Moffett Fe...
the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas sees some of the highest crossing rates in the country. Once in the US, migrants pass through urban areas such as McAllen, Harlingen, and Brownsville along the border. As they travel north, smuggling organizations provide groups of ...
This crossing, which technically consists of two facilities, the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit–Windsor tunnel, accounts for nearly 27 percent of all truck traffic across the northern border (US Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 2006). Unlike most of the border ...
Since the 1990s, US border policies have worked to funnel undocumented migration into remote stretches of the Sonoran Desert, where deadly terrain and temperatures make border crossing most dangerous. This weaponization of the desert finds some cover, we argue, behind the scalar projects of state-...
Schmidt also questioned the argument that most migrants fail their final asylum screening. He said some immigration judges apply overly restrictive standards and that the system is so backlogged that it is hard to know exactly what the most recent and reliable statisti...
… CBP does not keep statistics on the number of basic vs. advanced searches, the number of times CBP downloads data into its central database, nor the number of times it searches this database for “national security” purposes It’s hard to manage what you can’t measure. Sen. Wyden...
add that to the national clog sales statistics I have at my elbow…” Not going to happen. So why make Millicent guess? In response to the hefty percentage of you who just shouted, “Because tracking down those numbers would be a big, fat pain!”: allow me to suggest that if you do...
The quantity of goods bought in Great Britain increased by 0.4 per cent between July and August, following a drop in theprevious month, according to data published on Friday by the Office for National Statistics. August’s growth was slightly below the 0.5 per cent expansion forecast by economi...