Among the prerequisite courses for medical school, the subject of statistics doesn't usually pop into one's mind. Statistics is the study of data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation.

“Doug Altman was an outstanding researcher who did an enormous amount over his career to improve the quality of medical research,” Andrew Carr, head of the Nuffield Department of Orthopedics, ...

The obituary for Nathan Mantel, which appeared Thursday, incorrectly reported the name of the mother of his late son, Jesse Marc Mantel, who was a child from Mr. Mantel's marriage to his first wife, ...

THE Registrar General announces that his Advisory Committe on Medical Nomenclature and Statistics, the function of which is to consider from the medical point of view and to advise upon questions ...

QUITE apart from the academic consideration that vital and medical statistics now form an obligatory part of the education of students seeking the University of London's diploma in public health, the ...

Pop quiz: What percentage of bankruptcies in the United States are caused by medical bills? If you lived through the debate over passing Obamacare, you probably answered something like “half.” That ...

The "biometric school" founded by K. Pearson, F. Galton, and W. F. R. Weldon was concerned especially with heredity and variation, and between the wars "biometry" was not widely used as a general term ...