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.

Statistics is a useful tool for understanding the patterns in the world around us. But our intuition often lets us down when it comes to interpreting those patterns. In this series we look at some of ...

Suggested Citation: "Practice 3: Use of Multiple Data Sources for Statistics That Meet User Needs." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Principles and Practices for a ...

Two major goals in the study of biological systems are inference and prediction. Inference creates a mathematical model of the data-generation process to formalize understanding or test a hypothesis ...