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 ...

New research reveals a statistical technique used in Alzheimer's drug trials inflates clinical efficacy claims by 29x.

Statistical methods, as a technique, encompass a set of quantitative procedures for collecting, summarizing, modeling, and inferring properties of data under uncertainty. They include techniques for ...

Resources for observational comparative research have expanded enormously in recent years to include very large sources of ...

Life leaves behind patterns, not just traces. A new approach enhances the search for extra-terrestrial life.

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

Overview:  Statistics courses teach practical data analysis skills that can be used in real jobs and business ...

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