Medical research is essential for advancing the understanding of health, diseases, and treatments. There are many types of studies that serve different purposes. Medical research, or health research, ...

Low statistical power undermines the purpose of scientific research; it reduces the chance of detecting a true effect. Perhaps less intuitively, low power also reduces the likelihood that a ...

Recent investigations into child psychology have provided evidence that a specific cluster of behavioral symptoms is separate ...

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. The National ...

The American Trends Panel (ATP) is a national, probability-based panel of US adults fielded for the Pew Research Center by Abt SRBI. A special Diary Study was fielded November 10 through 16, 2014, ...

Now in jeopardy, the U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major research funder for several universities. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) As the Trump administration slashes the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Recruitment is generally the first contact between researchers and prospective participants (whether through paper-based or online announcements, media communications, or face-to-face interactions) ...

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