I am 66 years old and retired. I draw a retirement plus Social Security. My wife is still working, with retirement coming in the near future. She will have a small pension and Social Security ...

There have been a few recent articles, such as this one, that try to dispel stereotypes of what the typical librarian does or does not do as part of their daily routine. I like to think that a large ...

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 ...

Recent advances in survey methodology and statistical theory have led to the development of robust estimation techniques that address the inherent challenges of measuring sensitive variables. In many ...

A survey of 75 biomedical articles dealing with stress-dependent blood parameters in caged primates revealed that the conditions under which blood collection occurred were in most cased described ...

Nonparametric instrumental variable (NPIV) estimation is a cutting‐edge methodological framework employed to uncover causal relationships in the presence of endogenous regressors, without imposing ...

Michael Yudell, PhD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, wrote a March 9 Public Health Post piece about the misuse of racial categories in biomedical research. "Many public health ...

Morningstar has launched Annuity Intelligence, a web-based research and evaluation tool for advisors and broker-dealers charged with finding the best variable annuity products for their clients. The ...

Health programs that use social and related data obtained through surveys or other methods need to distinguish among so-called independent variables. Three groups of independent variables are (a) ...

Mikyong Minsun Kim, Gary Rhoades and Dudley B. Woodard, Jr. This article examines the relationship between sponsored research monies and the graduation of undergraduate students at 22 public research ...