Ethics committees and funding agencies often receive protocols that involve either too many or too few animals to answer the specific research question being investigated. It is evident that a greater ...

We revisit the problem of determining the sample size for a Gaussian process emulator and provide a data analytic tool for exact sample size calculations that goes beyond the n = 10d rule of thumb and ...

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The current pandemic is a dramatic case study in why experiments matter. How else are we to know which tests accurately identify COVID-19 infections and their telltale antibodies, whether and how well ...

Technologies that underpin modern society, such as smartphones and automobiles, rely on a diverse range of functional ...

With the right approach, even small firms can get a competitive advantage from the right kinds of tests. Harvard Business School’s Stefan Thomke says running experiments can give companies tremendous ...