Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March 2014), pp. 97-112 (16 pages) Objectives Place-based policing experiments have led to encouraging findings regarding the ability of the police ...

Maximum likelihood methods are developed for the analysis of data from randomized block experiments, when some of the observations are censored. A modification of the maximum likelihood process, ...

Thomas D. Cook, a professor of sociology, psychology, education, and social policy at Northwestern University, criticizes education researchers’ reluctance to perform randomized experiments. He points ...

Randomized experiments have long been a cornerstone of scientific research. And many tech companies run randomized tests to learn from the huge amounts of data their customers generate. In 2019, ...

In order to make smart decisions at work, we need data. Where that data comes from and how we analyze it depends on a lot of factors — for example, what we’re trying to do with the results, how ...

Data collection is sometimes performed without considering the effect poorly collected data has in the strength of statistical conclusions. When researchers properly design an experiment, they are ...

More than ever before, managers are using large-scale randomized controlled trials (i.e., experiments) to guide decisions. This has led to impressive gains for organizations ranging from Amazon to the ...