When it comes to using data to personalize medicine, Google and a UK hospital group’s partnership to build a personalized healthcare app – using 1.6 million health records – is really just the tip of ...

Advisors and websites often show clients the results of large numbers of Monte Carlo simulations. It is hoped that clients will be calmed by pursuing avenues predicted to have a 90% chance of success.

You can’t predict the future, of course, but that doesn’t stop some financial professionals from trying. Of the many methods devised to anticipate different possible futures in financial planning, ...

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