Every now and then, a major news publication will post a story with a headline like, “ HIV can be completely eliminated in laboratory...

Image by Jan from Pixabay This post was created in collaboration with M.E. Sidall . We often blame social media for the spread of...

So far we have covered p-values and confidence intervals in our interpreting data series, two fundamental concepts essential to...

Note: This is the second post in a series on interpreting scientific data. The first post covers statistical significance and p-values....

Most researchers rely on statistics to provide a measure of certainty about the significance of their results. Statistical analysis...