I agree with the main claim of your article, “A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math” (The Chronicle, June 28), that scientists would benefit from consulting ...

One major problem not mentioned in your article, “A New Theory on How Researchers Can Solve the Reproducibility Crisis: Do the Math” (The Chronicle, June 28), is the frequent lack of consensus among ...

Most people have nightmares about showing up for class naked. Scientists have nightmares about making elementary statistics errors in their published work. Publication in a scientific journal is ...

Obesity is among the CDC’s most important public health concerns, but a growing body of evidence suggests research surrounding obesity freqently includes major statistical errors. Investigators at the ...

Tommy John, the renowned pitcher, once made 3 errors on a single play: He fumbled a grounder, threw wildly past first base, then bobbled the relay throw from right field and threw past the catcher. I ...

The fallout over a pair of controversial studies released last year by the Department of Education’s chief statistics branch raged on last week when a national research advisory board met in ...

Measurement error models address the deviation between observed and true values, thereby refining the reliability of statistical inference. These frameworks are ...

Human error, not human biology, largely accounts for the apparent decline of mortality among the very old, according to a new report publishing on December 20 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology ...