“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, ...

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.

British statistician John Brian Copas will be awarded the Akaike Memorial Lecture Award, the Japanese statistical research community's major prize, for his many contributions to the study of data bias ...

A position is available in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton for a Medical Statistician with an interest in preconception, maternal and child health. The position is based at ...

Do you enjoy working with numbers? Can you look at information and spot patterns? If yes, then a career in statistics is right for you. A statistician collects, analyses, interprets and presents ...

Here are 10 things to know about how the public thinks about medical errors and patient safety, according to Harvard School of Public Health’s “The Public’s ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...