IN THIS issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Chao et al 1 report the results of a study that examined the impact of using four different risk/benefit measures when communicating survival ...

The numerical difference between a forecasted quantity and the actual result is known as absolute error. If you predict that you'll run a mile in eight minutes and ...

When you make a trade, there will be trading costs, but what’s the best way to measure those costs? The basic principle in TCA is to compare your achieved execution price to some observed benchmark, ...

In this volume, Spiegler and coworkers present their work on very low-birth weight infants (VLBW), they analysed at what age parents start complementary food in these infants, they determined risk ...

Data from medical research are typically summarized with various types of outcome measures. We present three arguments in favor of absolute over relative outcome measures. The first argument is from ...

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...

Cycling performance is often evaluated based on two varying metrics: absolute and relative power output. These metrics provide valuable insights into a cyclist’s fitness and performance capabilities, ...

Rising average living standards in many developing countries have triggered a reassessment of what it means to be considered poor. In response, some of those countries have increased their poverty ...