Robust Sahel drying in response to late 20th century forcings
The African Sahel experienced severe drying between the 1950s and the 1980s, with partial recovery since. We compare Sahel rainfall in the 20th century, pre‐industrial, and incr...
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The Anatomy of a Scientific Rumor
The announcement of the discovery of a Higgs boson-like particle at CERN will be remembered as one of the milestones of the scientific endeavor of the 21st century. In this pape...
Asthma attack periodicity: A study of hospital emergency visits in Vancouver
Attendances at the emergency departments of the nine acute care hospitals serving the Vancouver region, with a population of just under a million people, were recorded from July...
Some Invariance Principles and Central Limit Theorems for Dependent Heterogeneous Processes
Building on work of McLeish, we present a number of invariance principles for doubly indexed arrays of stochastic processes which may exhibit considerable dependence, heterogene...
Impact of postmenopausal hormone therapy on cardiovascular events and cancer: pooled data from clinical trials
The results of these pooled data do not support the notion that postmenopausal hormone therapy prevents cardiovascular events.
International trends in stroke mortality: 1970-1985.
We compared the pattern of cerebrovascular disease (stroke) mortality in men and women aged 40-69 years in 27 countries during 1970-1985 with the decline in coronary heart disea...
The effect of measuring error on the results of therapeutic trials in advanced cancer
In this study, 16 experienced oncologists each measured 12 simulated tumor masses employing their usual clinical methods. Unknown to the oncologists, two pairs of these tumors w...