The likelihood that a scientist will find success in the academic-job market is highly predictable, and it depends largely on his or her publication record, according to the journal Current Biology.

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Monte Carlo simulation is a technique used to demonstrate risk and a range of possible outcomes, in which a financial plan is put through thousands of possible return paths for the portfolio to ...

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