Although population association studies are not new, there remain many areas of disagreement over appropriate statistical analyses. This article provides an overview of statistical methods, including ...

Statistics is a branch of math that involves the collection, description, analysis, and inference of conclusions from quantitative data. But what is a statistic? Let’s find out. The word statistic is ...

Statistics has moved beyond the frequentist-Bayesian controversies of the past. Where does this leave our ability to interpret results? I suggest that a philosophy compatible with statistical practice ...

In statistics, a population refers to the entire group of individuals or items that we are interested in studying. However, collecting data from the whole population is often impractical due to size, ...

We reviewed data from all 238 articles published as “Original Articles” and “Special Articles” from January through December 2015 (volumes 372 and 373) and categorized the statistical methods used.

The analysis of correlated binary data is pivotal in many fields, particularly in clinical research where paired organ measurements (for example, eyes or ears) inherently exhibit dependency.

Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are one of the most widely used statistical methods for analyzing sequence data. However, the reporting of output from HMMs has largely been restricted to the presentation ...