Health researchers need to fully understand the underlying assumptions to uncover cause and effect. Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich explain Physicians ask, answer, and interpret myriad causal questions ...

In genetic analysis, there are often competing explanations for the same data. Sophisticated mathematical models have been developed that can encapsulate these problems in terms of parameters that ...

The two distinct concepts of inference and criterion robustness are illustrated with a simple example based on the one-parameter exponential model. The study of inference and criterion robustness of ...

Imagine we had a question: “Do men and women differ on X?” No matter what “X” is—height, empathy, knowledge of 13 th century Spanish history, or anything else—we know that any given man will be ...

Sufficiency has long been regarded as the primary reduction procedure to simplify a statistical model, and the assessment of the procedure involves an implicit global repeated sampling principle. By ...

What is a one sample t test? The t test is a commonly used hypothesis test in statistics that allows us to compare the mean value of a group of sampled data with some hypothesized value, usually a ...