Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old ...

Research and statistical analysis help us understand how the world works, how effective medications and treatments are, what influences our health, the best approach for business practices, and much ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The debate may largely be drawn along political lines, but the human role in climate change remains one of the most controversial questions in 21st century science. Writing in WIREs Climate Change Dr ...

The first thing any scientist does before performing an experiment is to form a hypothesis about the experiment's outcome. This often takes the form of a null hypothesis, which is a statistical ...

Objection: Natural variability is the null hypothesis; there must be compelling evidence of an anthropogenic CO2 warming effect before we take it seriously. Answer: The null hypothesis is a ...

Development criteria observed as time series on nominal variables pose a problem for research design. Markov chains are attractive in the first instance because they can handle such multivariate ...

I've recently begun to publish small excerpts and arguments from my forthcoming work, The Myth of Sex Addiction. As I've done so, I've heard from sex addiction proponents who argue that I must accept ...

In this paper we propose a new class of statistics to test a simple hypothesis against a family of alternatives characterized by a mixture model. Unlike the likelihood ratio statistic, whose large ...