As the year comes to a close, we explain how deeper problems persist, including a delayed census weakening survey estimates ...

Gaps in data because of the government shutdown make a hash of the latest federal reports on inflation and economic growth.

Unemployment rates fell in 116 counties, rose in Clinton, Wayne and Ballard counties and stayed the same in Logan County ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more ...

The mission of CNSTAT is to provide advice to the federal government and the nation grounded in the current best scientific knowledge and practice that will lead to improved statistical methods and ...

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer charged with quality control and a British lady insisting she can taste ...

A man broke the conditions of his parole when he provided a non-human urine sample for required drug tests. According to the files released today by the Supreme Court, Benjamin Henderson was sentenced ...

Many healthcare providers feel that UPIC audits often fall short, with flawed sampling and extrapolation techniques that dramatically exaggerate overpayment findings, exposing providers to undue ...

Abstract: Real-time status updates play an important role in low-latency cyber-physical systems, in which the real network traffic statistics (i.e., transmission ...

Federal statistical agencies face increasingly overt politicization by the Trump Administration on top of chronic underinvestment, uncertainty, and recent and proposed budget cuts, all of which ...