When it comes to statistics, we usually expect to be informed about what happens "on average." But sometimes the key ...

An alternative statistical method honed and advanced by Cornell researchers can make clinical trials more reliable and trustworthy while also helping to remedy what has been called a "replicability ...

A reproducibility crisis is ongoing in scientific research, where many studies may be difficult or impossible to replicate and thereby validate, especially when the study involves a very large sample ...

A statistical approach being used to support a new class of Alzheimer's drugs may lead to overstated claims about how the drugs work, according to a new study led by researchers at the Brown ...

A new statistical method provides a more efficient way to uncover biologically meaningful changes in genomic data that span multiple conditions -- such as cell types or tissues. A new statistical ...

Method comparison studies aim to evaluate whether two or more measurement techniques yield sufficiently similar results to be used interchangeably. Traditional approaches such as linear regression and ...

Precision oncology exploits genomic, immunologic, and other biomarkers to drive discovery, drug development, and clinical care for patients with cancer. Precision oncology helps devise individualized ...

Recurrent event data occur when study subjects may experience the same type of event multiple times over a follow-up period. Analysing such data requires methods that accommodate within-subject ...