On Aug. 7, 2025, President Donald J. Trump directed the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to expand higher education data collection to aid enforcement of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions banning ...

Statistical discrimination is our tendency to believe something about a group of people based on a perceived group average. These beliefs don't necessarily have to come from a prejudiced point of view ...

Misuse of statistics in medical and sports science research is common and may lead to detrimental consequences to healthcare. Many authors, editors and peer reviewers of medical papers will not have ...

Statistical models predict stock trends using historical data and mathematical equations. Common statistical models include regression, time series, and risk assessment tools. Effective use depends on ...

The scientific world is abuzz following recommendations by two of the most prestigious scholarly journals – The American Statistician and Nature – that the term “statistical significance” be retired.

It may be common knowledge that p < .05 indicates statistical significance. Psychology students (and others) are often taught that p < .05 means the probability (p) of rejecting the null hypothesis ...

A variety of statistical tools can detect potential breaches in the integrity of elections. These techniques draw on tools from many fields, including pure mathematics, statistics, and machine ...

Multiplicity, or the use of many comparisons in a clinical trial, increases the likelihood that a chance association could be deemed causal. This problem commonly arises in clinical trials that have ...