In a new draft guidance issued on January 14, 2026, the FDA discussed the use of a modern statistical methodology in clinical trials designed to ...

The overwhelming amount of data collected from each basketball game presents teams with a challenge — and an opportunity. Ken Pomeroy and Evan Miyakawa are two of the leaders spearheading a drive to ...

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In Evanston, the discourse surrounding Schrödinger’s Arrinten Page is at a climax. Page has played under 15 minutes in each ...

Discover how sample size neglect impacts statistical conclusions and learn to avoid this cognitive bias studied by renowned experts like Tversky and Kahneman.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now “open to bayesian statistics,” contrasting this with the frequentist approach that the agency and the drug industry have historically relied on for ...

In one day, 433 people won the Philippine lottery jackpot. What were the chances? On October 1, 2022, something strange happened in the Philippines: 433 people won the jackpot in the local lottery.

This study proposes an important new approach to analyzing cell-count data, which are often undersampled and cannot be accurately assessed using traditional statistical methods. The case studies ...

Economists say unbiased data is essential for policymaking, and for democracy. President Trump said he ousted the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the numbers produced by her agency were ...

In the wake of the replication crisis, statistical power has become one of the central issues in debates about the quality of research. The widespread use of tests with low power is seen as a key ...