A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible. A new statistical tool can help researchers get ...

Ethics committees and funding agencies often receive protocols that involve either too many or too few animals to answer the specific research question being investigated. It is evident that a greater ...

Anyone who’s read my stuff with any regularity is acutely aware of my disdain for the way many observational studies are conducted and interpreted in health and nutrition research, as well as my ...

Data collection is sometimes performed without considering the effect poorly collected data has in the strength of statistical conclusions. When researchers properly design an experiment, they are ...

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs; sometimes referred to as A/B tests) are considered the gold standard for evidence in science and medicine. If you took anything away from your Research Methods 101 ...

Banerjee, A., Shawn A. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden. "Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India." Quarterly Journal of Economics 122, no ...