"We think we can make something better or find out what is going on in this interesting area if we try a bunch of things and apply several sophisticated techniques to study this." These proposals are ...

Translational Behavioral Medicine, a major scientific behavioral medicine journal, now publishes research studies that have null results. Some in the scientific community view null results research as ...

Development criteria observed as time series on nominal variables pose a problem for research design. Markov chains are attractive in the first instance because they can handle such multivariate ...

Objection: Natural variability is the null hypothesis; there must be compelling evidence of an anthropogenic CO2 warming effect before we take it seriously. Answer: The null hypothesis is a ...