Statistics at Square Two: Understanding Modern Statistical Applications in Medicine.

Statistics at square one: XVIII-Correlation.

to recover. All that one can say is that it is likely that many fail to achieve their full potential in adult life. Recent studies have shown that concentration of care on labour and the first weeks of life, which are the most dangerous times in the life of the baby, has paid dividends. By using continuous monitoring for all women, fetal death during labour can be eliminated. Equally, the provi...

Statistics at square one. III--Standard deviation.

Statistics at square one. XX-Correlation (concluded).

Statistical Cartoons: the Role of Graphics in Understanding Statistics

Animation is a graphical device which can be used to considerable effect in a teaching and learning context but which in the past has required considerable effort to achieve. A variety of tools are now available to assist. Several of these are mentioned, although the focus here is on the rpanel package in the statistical computing system R. More importantly, illustrations are given of the natur...

Epigenetics at the epicenter of modern medicine.

Epigenetics, the study of non-DNA sequence-related heredity, is at the epicenter of modern medicine because it can help to explain the relationship between an individual's genetic background, the environment, aging, and disease. It can do so because the epigenetic state varies among tissues and during a lifetime, whereas the DNA sequence remains essentially the same. As cells adapt to a changin...