The Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...

How could this be? This counterintuitive finding is a consequence of what’s called Simpson’s paradox, a phenomenon that is ...

Divergence estimators have emerged as quintessential tools in statistical inference, particularly in contexts where traditional likelihood‐based methods fail under model misspecification or data ...

Starting in 2017, researchers from around the university will have the opportunity to access the nation’s highest-quality Census data for analysis of U.S. economy and public policy issues as a partner ...

A recent paper, “Traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip” in the Lancet, a top medical journal, estimates that 64,260 Palestinians were killed by traumatic injury from October 7, 2023 to June 30, ...

Social statistics is the branch of statistics devoted to the application and development of quantitative methods tailored to the social and human sciences. Focusing on human behaviour, social ...

Abstract: Assumptions play a pivotal role in the selection and efficacy of statistical models, as unmet assumptions can lead to flawed conclusions and impact decision-making. In both traditional ...

The Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research and Prevention (SCHARP) is part of the Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology (BBE) research program at Fred Hutch Cancer Center and is housed ...

Statistics is the science of learning from data. The theoretical foundation of statistics lies in probability theory, which is applied to decision-making under uncertainty. Data science consists of ...

The University of Michigan’s Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research, established in 1946, provides free software support and consulting on data analysis for all University ...