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Supreme Court ruling on Roundup points to a confusing difference between the law and science

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Roundup shows science and law use the same word — causation — while asking different questions, ...

The Real Advantage Isn’t More Data. It’s Better Context.

Companies such as BTA Sports are focused on data, analytics, and decision-support tools that help users organize and ...
BMJ Open

Validation of the Coercive-Composite Abuse Scale (C-CAS) in an Australian sample of women experiencing intimate partner abuse

Conclusions The C-CAS, a self-report measure of coercive control experiences among women, has demonstrated initial reliability and validity and is suitable for use in population or clinical studies.
IEEE

Statistical Inference in PCA for Hyperspectral Images

Abstract: Principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular tool for initial investigation of hyperspectral image data. There are many ways in which the estimated eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the ...
Investopedia

Nonparametric Statistics Explained: Types, Uses, and Examples

Mitchell Grant is a self-taught investor with over 5 years of experience as a financial trader. He is a financial content strategist and creative content editor. Timothy Li is a consultant, accountant ...
GitHub

Sparse InversE Covariance estimation for Ecological Association and Statistical Inference

This package will be useful to anybody who wants to infer graphical models for all sorts of compositional data, though primarily intended for microbiome relative abundance data (generated from 16S ...
Investopedia

Bayes' Theorem: What It Is, Formula, and Examples

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
IEEE

Generalized Fiducial Inference for Accelerated Life Tests With Weibull Distribution and Progressively Type-II Censoring

Abstract: In addition to conventional censoring schemes such as Type-I or Type-II censoring, progressively censoring is a useful method to reduce cost and obtain additional reliability information in ...
Wall Street Journal

When Statistics Fly in Court

Prof. Tom Campbell presents Gomillion v. Lightfoot (1960) as a case in which “statistical proof” gave “rise to an inference of discrimination even where the record provides no overt proof of such ...
BMJ

Causal inference is hard, and advanced statistical analysis is not enough

Health researchers need to fully understand the underlying assumptions to uncover cause and effect. Timothy Feeney and Paul Zivich explain Physicians ask, answer, and interpret myriad causal questions ...
The Conversation

Experts have challenged the medical case against Lucy Letby. What about the statistical evidence?

An international panel of medical experts have thrust Lucy Letby back into the spotlight. At a press conference convened by Letby’s legal team, the experts cast doubt over the former nurse’s ...