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Decisions on regulatory approval of drugs are based typically on randomized trials observing statistically significant superiority of an experimental agent over an established standard. Recently, the ...

A new paper published in European Science Editing highlights the growing psychological strain on researchers driven by pressure to obtain statistically significant results in academic publishing.

Many bankers hear the term “Statistical Significance” but don’t know what it means and how it is relevant to potential fair lending violations. Typically, when an examiner is evaluating if a bank is ...

Community detection is a fundamental procedure in the analysis of network data. Despite decades of research, there is still no consensus on the definition of a community. To analytically test the ...