Proper statistical analysis begins with understanding the specific comparison being made. Common mistakes often stem from ...

When you use the statistical analysis features in Excel, you are leveraging one of the most powerful tools available for data manipulation and interpretation. Excel is not just a spreadsheet ...

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 ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...

Cell-type heterogeneity can be a major source of confounding and reverse causation in epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS). Adjustment for cell-type composition is therefore critical for an ...