Frank Brodkey, MD, discusses how the misinterpretation of medical literature contributes to critical care dogma.

Beneath one of the largest pyramids in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, archaeologists recovered approximately 200 ...

The p-value is a number measuring the “statistical significance” of an experiment, and it’s often treated as the adjudicator ...

Empirical investigation requires dealing with fundamental uncertainty. In experimental psychology, research questions are often addressed using Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST), an approach ...

Clinical trials for a new drug can take years to complete, and cost up to hundreds of millions of dollars. New draft guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration aims to make that process ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Understanding what causes disease is key to improving its treatment and prevention. Large health studies like UK Biobank measure thousands of possible causes of disease. Traditionally, scientists have ...

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has introduced AutoDS (Autonomous Discovery via Surprisal), a groundbreaking prototype engine for open-ended autonomous scientific discovery.

Bayesian analysis is being used with increasing frequency in critical care research and brings advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional Frequentist techniques. This study overviews this ...