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Under the new leadership of Marty Makary, the FDA should focus more attention on the critical role of real-world clinical data — such as from health insurance databases — in the ongoing assessment of ...

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During his Ph.D. research, mathematician Tyron Lardy worked on a new approach to hypothesis testing. Instead of the traditional p-value, he uses so-called e-values. These turn out to be more ...

In May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said it was discontinuing publication of some data on wholesale prices. The cuts in the consumer price data could be another example of that erosion.

While data-led recruitment — and even artificial intelligence — has become increasingly valuable for clubs, there are fewer examples of statistics directly informing decision-making within a game.

Unfortunately, this is not the only example of Statistics Canada’s recent fixation with identity. The same alcohol report also admits to randomizing data collected by gender. The agency no longer ...

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The most common test of statistical significance originated from the Guinness brewery. Here’s how it works ...

In statistics, a population is the group on which information is being gathered and analyzed. A sample is a representative selection of the population.