Let’s start with a definition of Applied Statistics: Applied Statistics is the root of data analysis. The practice of applied statistics involves analyzing data to help define and determine an ...

Through tumor profiling and statistical analysis, precision oncology uses genomic and other biomarkers to drive discovery, drug development, and clinical care for patients with cancer. It intends to ...

Discover how econometricians use math and statistics to analyze and predict economic trends, serving in finance and academia ...

Let us compare the two competing approaches to gene selection in a simulation experiment where the true answer is known. We will treat them solely as ranking procedures with the length of the gene ...

Abstract: Assumptions play a pivotal role in the selection and efficacy of statistical models, as unmet assumptions can lead to flawed conclusions and impact decision-making. In both traditional ...

High-dimensional -omics data such as genomic, transcriptomic, and metabolomic data offer great promise in advancing precision medicine. In particular, such data have enabled the investigation of ...

The Statistical & Data Sciences (SDS) Program links faculty and students from across the college interested in learning things from data. At Smith, students learn statistics by doing—class time ...