Health researchers need to fully understand the underlying assumptions to uncover cause and effect. Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich explain Physicians ask, answer, and interpret myriad causal questions ...

The original definition of the word “bias,” when it entered the English language in the 16th century, was a diagonal line, and specifically one that cut across the warp or weft of a woven fabric. It ...

Scientists at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap forward in predicting the risk of hip fracture among women ...

Researchers analyzed 11 million posts to find that while political bias varies by site, the preference for low-quality news ...

Discover how base-year analysis measures economic changes, eliminates inflation effects, and aids in financial growth ...

Background Out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC) services are complex clinical environments where suboptimal care may occur.

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Mitchell Grant is a self-taught investor with over 5 years of experience as a financial trader. He is a financial content strategist and creative content editor. Timothy Li is a consultant, accountant ...

New research indicates that perceiving one’s social group as possessing inner spiritual strength can drive members to extreme ...

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MIT researchers have developed a method that generates more accurate uncertainty measures for certain types of estimation. This could help improve the reliability of data analyses in areas like ...

Statistical methods are mathematical formulas, models, and techniques that are used in statistical analysis of raw research data. The application of statistical methods extracts information from ...