Background The National Heart Failure Audit gathers data on patients coded at discharge (or death) as having heart failure as ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste ...

A newly published study has found that males of some of our earliest known ancestors were significantly larger than females. The pronounced difference in body size present in both Australopithecus ...

Introduction The commonly used frequentist paradigm of null hypothesis statistics testing with its reliance on the p-value and the corresponding notion of ‘statistical significance’ has been under ...

In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research station in Hertfordshire, UK. One of them, a statistician by the name of Ronald Fisher, poured a cup ...

AI is still the hottest tech story of the decade, but how big is it exactly, and where is it headed? As it continues to reshape business, work and everyday life, new breakthroughs such as generative ...

Objectives We estimated the extent of the disparity between statistical significance and clinical importance in published randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and explored factors associated with this ...

ABSTRACT: This research work is an extension of the study carried out on the physico-mechanical characterisation of aggregates used in the manufacture of standard concretes. The aim is to test the ...