When testing for stochastic order in ordered 2 x J contingency tables, it is common to select the cutoff required to declare significance so as to ensure that the size of the test is exactly α ...

We develop an algorithm for computing sample sizes, equal or unequal, for categorical data. We illustrate its use in the two-sample setting using the Wilcoxon rank-sum statistic, but the algorithm ...

Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a long-running lawsuit by parents and their children claiming its YouTube video app collected data from millions of kids.

Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a long-running lawsuit by parents and their children claiming its YouTube video app collected data from millions of U.S. kids under 13 so it could ...

Mode observations are most useful to describe categorical data, whose values are limited to a finite set of values. In these cases, the mode can quickly be determined from a frequency table.

Annual admissions across Virginia hospitals for patients with an autism diagnosis rose 95% since 2020, and were mostly children, the VHHA found.

Amid a nationwide measles outbreak, Iowa data show that only two counties have a high enough vaccination rate to achieve herd immunity.

The Supreme Court is allowing a law forcing social media companies to verify the ages of their users and require parental consent to go into effect for now.

The researchers collected data about blood sugar levels in U.S. youth -- but they also changed the methodology used to analyze the information, dramatically increasing the estimate of how common ...