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Stanley Young, Assistant Director of Bioinformatics, National Institute of Statistical Science

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    Published: March 18, 2013

    Stanley Young is a statistician who studies issues with multiple testing and data mining in biomedical research.

    GiveWell spoke with Dr. Young as part of our investigation of opportunities to improve biomedical research. We discussed low reproducibility rates, multiple hypothesis testing, data sharing and how academic incentives are not aligned to achieve highly reproducible results.

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