Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Statistics"
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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective
(American Economic Association, 2015)The debate about behavioral economics – the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics – is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. This paper presents a more pragmatic ... -
Bias–Variance and Breadth–Depth Tradeoffs in Respondent-Driven Sampling
(Informa UK Limited, 2013)Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a link-tracing network sampling strategy for collecting data from hard-to-reach populations, such as injection drug users or individuals at high risk of being infected with HIV. The ... -
Binomial-Beta Hierarchical Models for Ecological Inference
(SAGE Publications, 1999)he authors develop binomial-beta hierarchical models for ecological inference using insights from the literature on hierarchical models based on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and King’s ecological inference model. ... -
Biopolymer Structure Simulation and Optimization via Fragment Regrowth Monte Carlo
(American Institute of Physics, 2007)An efficient exploration of the configuration space of a biopolymer is essential for its structure modeling and prediction. In this study, the authors propose a new Monte Carlo method, fragment regrowth via energy-guided ... -
Block-based Bayesian epistasis association mapping with application to WTCCC type 1 diabetes data
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2011)Interactions among multiple genes across the genome may contribute to the risks of many complex human diseases. Whole-genome single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) data collected for many thousands of SNP markers from ... -
Body Fatness During Childhood and Adolescence and Incidence of Breast Cancer in Premenopausal Women: A Prospective Cohort Study
(BioMed Central, 2005)Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) during adulthood is inversely related to the incidence of premenopausal breast cancer, but the role of body fatness earlier in life is less clear. We examined prospectively the relation ... -
Broadly heterogeneous activation of the master regulator for sporulation in Bacillus subtilis
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010)A model system for investigating how developmental regulatory networks determine cell fate is spore formation in Bacillus subtilis. The master regulator for sporulation is Spo0A, which is activated by phosphorylation via ... -
Camera: a competitive gene set test accounting for inter-gene correlation
(Oxford University Press, 2012)Competitive gene set tests are commonly used in molecular pathway analysis to test for enrichment of a particular gene annotation category amongst the differential expression results from a microarray experiment. Existing ... -
The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Causal Effects
(Oxford University Press, 1983)The propensity score is the conditional probability of assignment to a particular treatment given a vector of observed covariates. Both large and small sample theory show that adjustment for the scalar propensity score is ... -
Clustering Analysis of SAGE Data using a Poisson Approach
(BioMed Central, 2004)Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) data have been poorly exploited by clustering analysis owing to the lack of appropriate statistical methods that consider their specific properties. We modeled SAGE data by Poisson ... -
Comment: A Fruitful Resolution to Simpson’s Paradox via Multiresolution Inference
(Informa UK Limited, 2014)Simpson’s Paradox is really a Simple Paradox if one at all. Peeling away the paradox is as easy (or hard) as avoiding a comparison of apples and oranges, a concept requiring no mention of causality. We show how the commonly ... -
Comment: Assumptions and Procedures in the File Drawer Problem
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Comments on the Neyman–Fisher Controversy and Its Consequences
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2014)The Neyman–Fisher controversy considered here originated with the 1935 presentation of Jerzy Neyman’s Statistical Problems in Agricultural Experimentation to the Royal Statistical Society. Neyman asserted that the standard ... -
Comparing Correlated but Nonoverlapping Correlations
(American Psychological Association, 1996)A common situation in psychological research involves the comparison of two correlations on the same sample of subjects, in which the correlations are nonoverlapping in the sense of having a variable in common (e.g., ru ... -
Comparing Correlated Correlation Coefficients
(American Psychological Association, 1992)The purpose of this article is to provide simple but accurate methods for comparing correlation coefficients between a dependent variable and a set of independent variables. The methods are simple extensions of Dunn & ... -
Concise comparative summaries (CCS) of large text corpora with a human experiment
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2014)In this paper we propose a general framework for topic-specific summarization of large text corpora and illustrate how it can be used for the analysis of news databases. Our framework, concise comparative summarization ... -
A Consensus on Second Stage Analyses in Ecological Inference Models
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A conserved cell growth cycle can account for the environmental stress responses of divergent eukaryotes
(American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), 2012)The respiratory metabolic cycle in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) consists of two phases most simply defined phenomenologically: low oxygen consumption (LOC) and high oxygen consumption (HOC). Each phase is ... -
Constant Growth Rate Can Be Supported by Decreasing Energy Flux and Increasing Aerobic Glycolysis
(Elsevier BV, 2014)Fermenting glucose in the presence of enough oxygen to support respiration, known as aerobic glycolysis, is believed to maximize growth rate. We observed increasing aerobic glycolysis during exponential growth, suggesting ... -
Constructing a Control Group Using Multivariate Matched Sampling Methods That Incorporate the Propensity Score
(American Statistical Association, 1985)Matched sampling is a method for selecting units from a large reservoir of potential controls to produce a control group of modest size that is similar to a treated group with respect to the distribution of observed ...