Checking poop may be unpleasant, but it might tell a scientist a lot about a person's microbiome and, importantly, whether their microbiome has any bearing on their illness. In the November 4 Nature, ...

Unmeasured confounding variables are a common problem in drawing causal inferences in observational studies. A theorem is given which in certain circumstances allows the researcher to draw conclusions ...

Welcome back to our series of articles sponsored by Intel – “Ask a Data Scientist.” Once a week you’ll see reader submitted questions of varying levels of technical detail answered by a practicing ...