In any scientific research, there are typically two variables of interest: independent variables and dependent variables. In forming the backbone of scientific experiments, they help scientists ...

March 9, 2021 Michael Yudell, PhD, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, wrote a March 9 Public Health Post piece about the misuse of racial categories in biomedical research. "Many ...

The Meaning of Research Findings Valid research confirms or dis-confirms probable relationships among variables. Research findings themselves have no other meaning and no wisdom.

Letters to the editor Sex as a research variable The article about using animal models in human health applications was informative (C&EN, March 20, page 30).

Much recent research on leadership has concerned moderator (contingency) variables. This research has yielded equivocal and/or conflicting results. Conceptually distinct variables have been treated as ...

Health programs that use social and related data obtained through surveys or other methods need to distinguish among so-called independent variables. Three groups of independent variables are (a) ...

A survey of 75 biomedical articles dealing with stress-dependent blood parameters in caged primates revealed that the conditions under which blood collection occurred were in most cased described ...