It is preferable if you come to this short course having reviewed some of these basic concepts that will be frequently mentioned: ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Many of Pew Research Center’s survey analyses show relationships between two ...

I 'm a big fan of Python for data analysis, but even I get curious about what else is available. R has long been the go-to language for statistics, but the "Tidyverse" has given the language a serious ...

Linear models, generalized linear models, and nonlinear models are examples of parametric regression models because we know the function that describes the relationship between the response and ...

Simply collecting data is not enough. You can fill spreadsheets with data, but it's useless if you can't act on it. Regression is one of the most powerful statistical tools for finding relationships ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 72, No. 2 (Mar., 2010), pp. 235-251 (17 pages) Competing risks problems arise in many fields of science, where two or ...

The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Oct., 2000), pp. 1245-1278 (34 pages) The interval mapping method has been shown to be a powerful tool for mapping QTL. However, it is still a challenge to ...