For those unafraid of equations, What Are the Odds? is a practical, insightful guide to thinking like a statistician.

The Antikythera mechanism has been described as the world’s first analogue computer since it was found in a shipwreck off the ...

The FDA's move to incorporate Bayesian statistical methods into clinical trials of drugs and biologics garnered special treatment in JAMA this week. JAMA published three perspectives -- two welcoming ...

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Marty Makary was appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2025. The prominent surgeon, medical researcher, bestselling author, and critic of the medical ...

This study proposes an important new approach to analyzing cell-count data, which are often undersampled and cannot be accurately assessed using traditional statistical methods. The case studies ...

Invasive species are among the leading threats to forests across North America. Among them, the spongy moth and Douglas-fir tussock moth are responsible for extensive damage to forests from coast to ...

ABSTRACT: Binary outcomes are frequently encountered in a variety of fields and contexts and the Bayesian approach is widely used to analyze this type of data. Under this framework, a beta prior ...