Confounding Problems Grants assist undergraduate students in pursuing research related to so-called confounding (or wicked) problems. These are large-scale problems that resist any simple solution — ...

Using observed imbalances between study groups (e.g., exposed and unexposed) to determine variables for confounding adjustment in nonrandomized studies may misguide the selection of variables to ...

Welcome back to our series of articles sponsored by Intel – “Ask a Data Scientist.” Once a week you’ll see reader submitted questions of varying levels of technical detail answered by a practicing ...

Jonathan Freeman, Donald A. Goldmann and John E. McGowan, Jr. Most information in hospital epidemiology comes from observational studies of hospitalized patients, not from planned experiments. Data ...

The article about using animal models in human health applications was informative (C&EN, March 20, page 30). The predominant use of male rodents in many studies was shown to raise serious questions ...