Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Did you know that gorging on dark chocolate accelerates weight loss? A study published in 2015 found that a group of subjects who followed a low-carbohydrate diet and ate a bar ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: Let's go to the second issue and a really big row that's brewing amongst medical ...

Among fields representing the epicenter of the replication crisis, they have a vested interest in abandoning statistical significance. While 2σ is a bit weak, if it can be replicated further ...

The statistical physics of graphs and partition functions represents a vibrant intersection of graph theory, statistical mechanics and computational complexity. By summing over an ensemble of ...

When it comes to deciding how significant a statistic is, Université de Montréal education professor Sébastien Béland is clear: "Our goal is to change practices in order to improve quality in the ...

The perennial question facing all banks is, “What volume of lending in Majority-Minority census tracts and mortgages extended to minority home borrowers must we do to avoid redlining allegations by ...

I want to believe as much as the next person that particle physicists have discovered a Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle,” one with a mass of 125 gigaelectronic volts (GeV). But so far I do ...