I just read an article on 247wallst.com, a news and opinion website, about America’s worst schools, which was based on information from Education Week‘s Quality Counts (Jan. 10, 2013). I must tell you ...

Skew‐normal distributions extend the traditional normal model by incorporating a parameter that accounts for asymmetry, thereby providing a more flexible framework for modelling real‐world data.

The results of 30% of all clinical studies led by German university hospitals remain unpublished. "This leads to a distortion of the evidence base and can ultimately result in poorer patient care," ...