The main points of the Statistics Act(PDF:210KB) (Act No. 53 in 2007) are as follows. Statistics as information infrastructure for society The purposes of this Act are to promote systematic and ...

The Statistical Abstract includes data on the state of Japan’s education, science and technology, academics, sports and culture. It has been edited and published based on various statistics prepared ...

Reliable, usable, high-quality statistics are vital for global prosperity and progress. The Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) provide an open-source framework for assessing the performance of ...

This protocol document first offers a summary of the SPI framework, methodology and data sources, before outlining the quality assurance protocols followed to produce the SPI and establishing the ...

Significance testing, with appropriate multiple testing correction, is currently the most convenient method for summarizing the evidence for association between a disease and a genetic variant.

When was the last time you heard a seminar speaker claim there was ‘no difference’ between two groups because the difference was ‘statistically non-significant’? If your experience matches ours, there ...

Peter Westfall is a distinguished professor of information systems and quantitative sciences at Texas Tech University. He specializes in using statistics in investing, technical analysis, and trading.

It’s easy to misunderstand and misuse one of the most common — and important — terms in academic research: statistical significance. We created this tip sheet to help journalists avoid some of the ...