Health Canada, in collaboration with the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Committee on Drinking Water, may choose to develop guidance documents for two reasons. The first is to provide operational or ...

Objectives To systematically review the quality of reporting of pilot and feasibility of cluster randomised trials (CRTs). In particular, to assess (1) the number of pilot CRTs conducted between 1 ...

Katharine Paljug is a financial writer and editor with over a decade of industry experience. Her writing has covered nearly every aspect of the financial world, from investing in forex to paying for ...

In statistics the term “population” has a slightly different meaning from the one given to it in ordinary speech. It need not refer only to people or to animate creatures – the population of Britain, ...

Suicide prevention will not be a box-ticking exercise under plans to hold state debt collectors and government agencies accountable for reducing deaths. Strategies would focus on ways they could make ...

SINGAPORE - A new chemotherapy and cancer treatment cost calculator was launched on Friday (Aug 19) to help patients estimate their expenses, in the light of upcoming changes to the Ministry of Health ...

Despite frequent calls for the overhaul of null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), this controversial procedure remains ubiquitous in behavioral, social and biomedical teaching and research.

Effect sizes are the most important outcome of empirical studies. Most articles on effect sizes highlight their importance to communicate the practical significance of results. For scientists ...