With recent advances in sequencing, genotyping arrays, and imputation, GWAS now aim to identify associations with rare and uncommon genetic variants. Here, we describe and evaluate a class of ...

The books Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Wheeler, 1976) and Damned Lies and Statistics (Best, 2001) have raised questions about whether statistics can be trusted. A number of educated people today, ...

Significance testing, with appropriate multiple testing correction, is currently the most convenient method for summarizing the evidence for association between a disease and a genetic variant.

The power of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to detect genetic influences on human disease can be substantially increased using a statistical testing framework. Despite the proliferation of ...

Statistical significance is a critical concept in data analysis and research. In essence, it’s a measure that allows researchers to assess whether the results of an experiment or study are due to ...

My final thoughts on those Iran vote analyses: From Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 to Mexico City in 2006 to Iran in 2009, tightly contested elections are often accompanied by claims of fraud or ...

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Choice and Interpretation of Statistical Tests Used When Competing Risks Are Present. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of ...

Understanding some statistics is important for general science literacy. Below are some common statistics resources that may be useful for your project work. To support your professional development, ...

In this paper, we propose IP core of statistical test suite included in FIPS PUB 140-2 documentation which is published by NIST. This module can be used for self tests of encryption module. For ...