Statistical discrimination is our tendency to believe something about a group of people based on a perceived group average. These beliefs don't necessarily have to come from a prejudiced point of view ...

Robust statistical reasoning is vital in the courtroom, as historical cases have shown. Take, for example, the case of Sally ...

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Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...

Example of how the statistical algorithm MorphoRegions works: Illustration of the process used by MorphoRegions to identify regions in the backbone based on vertebral shape (represented by PCO1 on ...

The authors present a set of statistical decision rules based on linear regression models that can be implemented in an automated trend system to assist stability studies. Submitted: Feb. 22, 2016.

Low statistical power undermines the purpose of scientific research; it reduces the chance of detecting a true effect. Perhaps less intuitively, low power also reduces the likelihood that a ...