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May 16, 2026
Marianne Huebner, Michigan State University, has a plan to protect you from having to take these statistical painkillers for your data headaches. Devise your data collection to ensure that your statistics are transparent, reproducible, and trustworthy. She writes:
Imagine you contribute to a manuscript reporting an observational study…
Layla Parast, University of Texas at Austin, has some advice for beginner researchers. The small things, done well and reliably, really do matter. She writes:
Every year, I talk to undergraduates who are interested in “doing research.” This is, in general, a very good instinct. Research is one…
Cun-Hui Zhang, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Rutgers University, is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the American Statistical Association. His research interests include high-dimensional data, machine learning, empirical Bayes, time series, nonparametric methods, multivariate analysis, survival data and biostatistics, functional MRI, closed loop diabetes control,…
Philip A. Ernst is Chair in Statistics and Royal Society Wolfson Fellow in the Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London. He earned his PhD in Statistics in 2014 from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include exact distribution theory, mathematical finance, optimal stopping, queueing systems,…
Jelle Goeman is professor of biostatistics at Leiden University Medical Center. He obtained his PhD at Leiden University in 2006 under supervision of Hans van Houwelingen and Sara van de Geer. His research interest is in high-dimensional data, in particular in testing and multiple testing problems that arise in such…