Persi Warren Diaconis (/ˌdaɪəˈkoʊnɪs/; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the...

Diaconis can refer to: Paulus Diaconis (Paul the Deacon), 8th century monk and scholar Persi Diaconis, American magician turned mathematician Freedman–Diaconis...

Freedman–Diaconis rule can be used to select the width of the bins to be used in a histogram. It is named after David A. Freedman and Persi Diaconis. For...

Persi may refer to: Persi Diaconis (born 1945), American mathematician and former professional magician Persi Iveland, a member of the Norwegian rock...

mathematician/magicians, including Arthur T. Benjamin, Persi Diaconis, and Colm Mulcahy. Diaconis has suggested that the reason so many mathematicians are...

some of Diaconis' results, concluding that six shuffles are enough. The difference hinges on how each measured the randomness of the deck. Diaconis used...

have application in performance magic. Bottom dealing experts include Persi Diaconis, Darwin Ortiz, Steve Forte, Daniel Madison, Jason England and Richard...

to the needs and peculiarities of Bayesian modeling. In the words of Persi Diaconis: Exploratory data analysis seeks to reveal structure, or simple descriptions...

The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of independent...

statistician Persi Diaconis, and polymath Raymond Smullyan. Gardner considered fellow magician James Randi his closest friend. Diaconis and Smullyan like...