Health researchers need to fully understand the underlying assumptions to uncover cause and effect. Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich explain Physicians ask, answer, and interpret myriad causal questions ...

Neuroscientists have found the neural wiring underlying predictive eye-tracking of movements and watched in monkeys as the circuit is set to predict a given speed. They say the neurons of the brain's ...

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, Vol. 31, Supplement 1. Agricultural exposures and cancer (2005), pp. 151-155 (5 pages) An innovative approach to dose-response modeling provides ...

With modern technology development, functional responses are observed frequently in fields such as biology, meteorology, and ergonomics, among others. Consider statistical inferences for functional ...

All of the captive kea were given the opportunity to participate in the sampling task, but not all of them were interested. (Credit: Amalia Bastos.) Those remarkable kea are at it again: now the ...

A new study reveals that giraffes can use statistical inferences to predict the likelihood of receiving carrot slices rather than zucchini slices, Phys.org reports. According to researchers, this ...

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. ~ Ernest Rutherford Many psychology students (and readers of Psychology Today) hate statistics, p < .05. During my ...