An international team of mathematicians, led by Lehigh University statistician Taeho Kim, has introduced an innovative method ...

A collaboration including Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital’s Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI) has produced a breakthrough in how to ...

A simple statistical test shows that contrary to current practice, the 'gaps' within DNA protein and sequence alignments commonly used in evolutionary biology can provide important information about ...

Predictive analytics has become a crucial organizational resource. Organizations – from corporations to government agencies – are swimming in massive amounts of data that must be collected, sorted and ...

Certain genetic mutations can have different outcomes depending on whether one inherits from their mother or their father. This phenomenon is known as parent-of-origin effects (POEs), where certain ...

A new collection in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecology compiles landmark studies published in its pages over the past 100 years that have advanced the use of statistics in ecology.

Chad Shaw, a statistician with joint appointments at Rice and Baylor and a faculty member at the NRI. Shaw is also the director of Rice’s Data to Knowledge Lab. A collaboration between Rice University ...