I just read an article on 247wallst.com, a news and opinion website, about America’s worst schools, which was based on information from Education Week‘s Quality Counts (Jan. 10, 2013). I must tell you ...

Skew‐normal distributions extend the traditional normal model by incorporating a parameter that accounts for asymmetry, thereby providing a more flexible framework for modelling real‐world data.

Broadcasters, ignoring recent census data showing the country is aging rapidly, are trotting out new programming this fall geared at younger and younger audiences. The new slate of shows being ...

Judgment-based calls among medical examiners skew gun-related death autopsy data, erroneously showing a decline in unintentional deaths nationwide, FiveThirtyEight reports. 1. There were 586 ...

The results of 30% of all clinical studies led by German university hospitals remain unpublished. "This leads to a distortion of the evidence base and can ultimately result in poorer patient care," ...

Mark Twain has supposedly quipped that: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that ain’t so.” Challenging what we know for sure about climate change is ...