Biostatistics is becoming an integral part of dental sciences. Awareness regarding the subject is not thoroughly assessed in the field of dentistry. So the study was conducted to assess dental professionals' knowledge, attitude, and perception toward biostatistics at an academic dental institution. An anonymous cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted among all the faculty and postgra...

Linhan Hua, Soutrik Mandalb* & Samiran Sinhaaa Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USAb Biostatistics Branch, Division Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Institute, Institutes Health, Rockville, MD, USA

I am genuinely thrilled to see Biostatistics make a formal venture into computational reproducibility, and I congratulate the editors of Biostatistics on taking this much needed step. I find the policies being adopted by Biostatistics eminently practical, and I hope that many authors will begin using this option. In my comments, I will try to explain how I came to believe in the importance of r...