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Statistical advances and challenges for analyzing correlated high dimensional SNP data in genomic study for complex diseases

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Recent advances of information technology in biomedical sciences and other applied areas have created numerous large diverse data sets with a high dimensional feature space, which provide us a tremendous amount of information and new opportunities for improving the quality of human life. Meanwhile, great challenges are also created driven by the continuous arrival of new data that requires researchers to convert these raw data into scientific knowledge in order to benefit from it.

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• Ciencias›Matemáticas

The Statistical Education of Harold Jeffreys

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The paper considers the statistical work of the physicist Harold
Jeffreys. In 1933-4 Jeffreys had a controversy with R.A. Fisher, the
leading statistician of the time. Prior to the encounter, Jeffreys had
worked on probability as the basis for scientific inference and had used
methods from the theory of errors in astronomy and seismology. He had also
started to rework the theory of errors on the basis of his theory of
probability. After the encounter Jeffreys produced a full-scale Bayesian
treatment of statistics in the form of his Theory of Probability.

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• Ciencias›Matemáticas

Environmental Statistics: Current and Future

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Since 1900, statistics has prospered and established for itself a central place in science and technology, as can be seen from the wide
application of its methods to almost all facets of life. The primary concern of statistics is to develop a logical and efficient system for
information acquisition and analysis that is geared towards broad applications. Such a system has its roots and extensions in case studies
from many scientific disciplines and in the collaboration between statisticians and other scientists.

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• Ciencias›Matemáticas

Introduction

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The word "statistics" derives from the collection and use of data to assist in the
administration of a state (nation). The justice system is one of the fundamental pillars of
a state, and is central to the political life of most countries. Ideas from probability and
statistics have been used to try to model and improve methods of legal decision-making
since the earliest days of our discipline in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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• Lengua y Literatura›Inglés›Literatura Americana›Colecciones (General)

Interpreting DNA Evidence: A Review

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The paper provides a review of current issues relating to the use of DNA profiling in
forensic science.

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• Lengua y Literatura›Inglés›Literatura Americana›Colecciones (General)

Introduction: How to Deal with Uncertainty in Population Forecasting?

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Demographers can no more be held responsible for inaccuracy in forecasting population
20 years ahead than geologists, meteorologists, or economists when they fail
to announce earthquakes, cold winters, or depressions 20 years ahead. What we can
be held responsible for is warning one another and our public what the error of our
estimates is likely to be. Nathan Keyfitz (1981)
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In the pursuit of our daily life, be it at the individual level or as a society, we are constantly guided
by expectations about the future.

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• Lengua y Literatura›Inglés›Literatura Americana›Colecciones (General)