Clinician-scientists involved in clinical trials who have inadequate statistical input often design clinical studies to use a binary responder analysis. They seem to believe that because a binary tre...

Researchers have used contorted, inefficient, and arbitrary analyses to demonstrated added value in biomarkers, genes, and new lab measurements. Traditional statistical measures have always been up to...

The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections.

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…

Patient clustering, often described as the finding of new phenotypes, is being used with increasing frequency in the medical literature. Most of the applications of clustering of observations are not ...

There are three widely applicable measures of central tendency for general continuous distributions: the mean, median, and pseudomedian (the mode is useful for describing smooth theoretical distributi...

Iván Díaz and I have engaged in a long discussion on X.com about the role of causal formalism in randomized clinical trials. This was motivated somewhat by my blog article Causal by Design where I ar...

There are three widely applicable measures of central tendency for general continuous distributions: the mean, median, and pseudomedian (the mode is useful for describing smooth theoretical distributi...

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…

Iván Diaz and I have engaged in a long discussion on X.com about the role of causal formalism in randomized clinical trials. This was motivated somewhat by my blog article Causal by Design where I ar...

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.