Articles published in the September 2026 issue

In May 2025, Tennessee authorities were preparing to arrest a university math professor for allegedly soliciting university donations from his students and pocketing the money.  Middle Tenness…

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake refe…

Oslo University Hospital Five researchers at Norway’s national gender incongruence clinic are appealing a university committee’s finding they committed “gross negligence” and scientific misconduct …

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

Ordinal semiparametric regression models in the cumulative probability model (CPM) family, of which proportional odds, proportional hazards, and probit regression are examples, contain virtually all r...

Personal website of Etienne Bacher: blog posts about R, research, and software.

wildpixel/iStock The involvement of independent academic researchers in examining data and conducting analyses is central to producing trustworthy research. Because of this, many journals require a…

Create elegant graphics with the Grammar of Graphics for Typst.

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

Website for the Bayesian Workflow book by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath, et al. — case studies, code, and exercises in R and Stan.

A primary goal of this article is to compare the accuracy of empirical cumulative distribution functions (ECDFs) and their logical extensions—cumulative probability ordinal regression models—with that...

We undertook a statistical modeling study to determine the effect of implementing population-based prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in England on overdiagnosis and PSA testing rates in compa...

YouTube video by Larry & Paul

Ordinal semiparametric regression models in the cumulative probability model (CPM) family, of which proportional odds, proportional hazards, and probit regression are examples, contain virtually all r...

Specific goals and estimation targets for randomized clinical trials have still not been well defined for general outcome variables. Proponents of causal inference calculus have claimed to define goal...

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: Exclusive: A couple’s daughter died after they paid more than $…

Academic website and blog of Vincent Arel-Bundock.

If your week flew by — we know ours did — catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: ‘Disappointed’: Cochrane journal asked researchers to publish article…

This half-day course introduces applied improvisation as a novel way to pursue interpersonal skills as a quantitative scientist.

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Mayo’s former director of research operations alleges she was sidelined, then terminated, for raising objections over lax standards of studies involving AI.