Discovery Through Statistics

In April 2016, the American Statistical Association shared its Discovery Through Statistics booth at the USA Science & Engineering Festival with a team of statistics students from Laber Labs, the creation of North Carolina State University’s Eric Laber. They were in Washington, DC, to showcase their latest project, a video game called Laser Foxes. Among adults and children alike, the computer game was a hit—and thanks to the game’s design and the Laber Lab team’s explanations of its underlying statistical methods, each contender left with a better understanding of the different applications of statistics.