I agree with the main claim of your article, “A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math” (The Chronicle, June 28), that scientists would benefit from consulting ...

One major problem not mentioned in your article, “A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math” (The Chronicle, June 28), is the frequent lack of consensus among ...

A special statistical series in the journal Obesity identifies common scientific and statistical errors in obesity-relate studies, challenges assumptions about weight loss, and calls for increased ...

The fallout over a pair of controversial studies released last year by the Department of Education’s chief statistics branch raged on last week when a national research advisory board met in ...

Evidence based practice is currently in vogue, and basing medical practice on published evidence is clearly a good idea, but what if the published findings are inaccurate? An article published this ...

Exposing common statistical errors and bias in obesity research to improve the reliability of future research is the aim of the authors of new research. Exposing common statistical errors and bias in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Two weeks ago, I spoke on a panel at the Association of American ...

Human error, not human biology, largely accounts for the apparent decline of mortality among the very old, according to a new report. The result casts doubt on the ...

Human error, not human biology, largely accounts for the apparent decline of mortality among the very old, according to a new report publishing on December 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology ...