S tatistical analysis is an important tool in experimental research and is essential for the reliable interpretation of experimental results. It is essential that statistical design should be considered at the very beginning of a research project, not merely as an afterthought. For example if the sample size for an experiment only allows for an underpowered statistical analysis, then the interp...

A statistical model has been developed for detection of Parkinson's Disease (PD). The model extracts features from voice recordings and considers an advanced statistical approach for pattern recognition. The significance of the work lies on the development and use of a novel subject-based approach to account for the dependent nature of the data in a replicated measure-based design. In order to ...

Approaches to scientific knowledge are a bit like rabid sports rivals; often they cannot say anything nice about their own team without simulta­ neously disparaging the other side. At some level, they know these intense rivalries would not exist if the other team were not a worthy contender, but the positive aspects of the other side are seldom acknowledged. likewise, empirical social scientist...

The major goal of host range testing in biological control is to minimize the probability that released biological control agents have unwanted effects on populations of non-target hosts. This leads to a non-trivial problem in statistical hypothesis testing, since the standard approach in statistical tests is to ask whether or not an effect – in this case acceptance of a nontarget host – exists...

State-trace analysis (Bamber, 1979) addresses a question of interest in many areas of psychological research: Does 1 or more than 1 latent (i.e., not directly observed) variable mediate an interaction between 2 experimental manipulations? There is little guidance available on how to design an experiment suited to state-trace analysis, despite its increasing use, and existing statistical methods...

We have built a statistical package called Ballgown for estimating differential expression of genes, transcripts, or exons from RNA sequencing experiments. Ballgown is designed to work with the popular Cufflinks transcript assembly software and uses well-motivated statistical methods to provide estimates of changes in expression. It permits statistical analysis at the transcript level for a wid...

This document provides an update for experiment E12-06-122 [1]: a precision measurement of the virtual photon asymmetry A1 of the neutron in the Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) region (W 2 > 4 GeV) using the Hall A polarized He target and the Hall A Bigbite spectrometer up to x Bj ≈ 0.71. Since the approval of this experiment, the hall A d2 [2] experiment, a DIS experiment, and the hall A trans...

in order to surveying the effect of feeding propolis on performance, feed intake and digestibility in holstein suckling calves, the experiment was designed in a completely randomized design with 4 treatments (diet) and 10 replicates (cattle) during 52 days. treatments included: 1. control (without monensin in starter and without propolis in milk); 2. starter without monensin and 500 ppm soluble...