Future progress in improving cancer therapy can be expedited by better prioritization of new treatments for phase III evaluation. Historically, phase II trials have been key components in the ...

The randomized clinical trial (RCT) is the gold standard for definitive evaluation of new therapies. RCTs designed to show that the therapeutic efficacy of a new therapy is not unacceptably inferior ...

A randomized control trial, or RCT, is a powerful way to design experiments to identify causal effects of an intervention. In an RCT, participants are randomly selected into treatment and control ...

Randomized experiments have long been a cornerstone of scientific research. And many tech companies run randomized tests to learn from the huge amounts of data their customers generate. In 2019, ...

In order to make smart decisions at work, we need data. Where that data comes from and how we analyze it depends on a lot of factors — for example, what we’re trying to do with the results, how ...

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 ...

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 ...