Just to get the obvious out of the way, no science should be burdened with a memorable dis from Disraeli (as popularized by Mark Twain), and statisticians have had it up to here with being tagged as ...

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has hosted a four-day workshop, “Statistics for Ecology, Genetics and Genomics Using R” that advanced the participants’ understanding of the role of statistical ...

How confident are you in your lab results? This paper explores this question and, by way of a worked example, provides a methodology to answer it. Many may wonder at the number of analytical chemists ...

The dissertation prospectus began by quoting a statistic -- a “grabber” meant to capture the reader’s attention. The graduate student who wrote this prospectus undoubtedly wanted to seem scholarly to ...