What is Statistics?
Statistics as a discipline is the development and application of methods to collect, analyze and interpret data. Modern statistical methods involve the design and analysis of experiments and surveys, the quantification of biological, social and scientific phenomenon and the application of statistical principles to understand more about the world around us.
2024
Editorial: IPPS 2022 - plant phenotyping for a sustainable future, Elias Kaiser, Philipp Von Gillhaussen, Jennifer Clarke, and Ulrich Schurr
Discussion on “Spatial+: A novel approach to spatial confounding” by Dupont, Wood, and Augustin, Brian J. Reich, Shu Yang, and Yawen Guan
Prebiotic proanthocyanidins inhibit bile reflux–induced esophageal adenocarcinoma through reshaping the gut microbiome and esophageal metabolome, Katherine M. Weh, Connor L. Howard, Yun Zhang, Bridget A. Tripp, Jennifer Clarke, Amy B. Howell, Joel H. Rubenstein, Julian A. Abrams, Maria Westerhoff, and Laura A. Kresty
Topological regression as an interpretable and efficient tool for quantitative structureactivity relationship modeling, Ruibo Zhang, Daniel Nolte, Cesar Sanchez-Villalobos, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Bagging Improves the Performance of Deep Learning-Based Semantic Segmentation with Limited Labeled Images: A Case Study of Crop Segmentation for High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping, Yinglun Zhan, Yuzhen Zhou, Geng Bai, and Yufeng Ge
2023
Viscoelastic Properties of Human Facial Skin and Comparisons with Facial Prosthetic Elastomers, Mark W. Beatty, Alvin G. Wee, D. B. Marx, Lauren Ridgway, Bobby Simetich, Thiago Carvalho De Sousa, Kevin Vakilzadian, and Joel Schulte
binGroup2: Statistical Tools for Infection Identification via Group Testing, Christopher R. Bilder, Brianna D. Hitt, Brad J. Biggerstaff, Joshua M. Tebbs, and Christopher S. McMahan
Data sharing and ontology use among agricultural genetics, genomics, and breeding databases and resources of the Agbiodata Consortium, Jennifer L. Clarke, Laurel D. Cooper, Monica F. Poelchau, Tanya Z. Berardini, Justin Elser, Andrew D. Farmer, Stephen Ficklin, Sunita Kumari, Marie-Angélique Laporte, Rex T. Nelson, Rie Sadohara, Peter Selby, Anne E. Thessen, Brandon Whitehead, and Taner Z. Sen
Pre-sleep feeding, sleep quality, and markers of recovery in division I NCAA female soccer players, Casey E. Greenwalt, Elisa Angeles, Matthew D. Vukovich, Abbie E. Smith-Ryan, Chris W. Bach, Stacy T. Sims, Tucker Zeleny, Kristen E. Holmes, David M. Presby, Katie J. Schiltz, Marine Dupuit, Liliana I. Renteria, and Michael J. Ormsbee
Socioeconomic Factors in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Malignant Melanoma in Hispanic vs. Non-Hispanic Patients: A National Cancer Database (NCDB) Study, Julia Griffin, Sarah J. Aurit, Timothy Malouff, and Peter Silberstein
Increasing racial diversity in the North American Plant Phenotyping Network through conference participation support, David LeBauer, Alexander Bucksch, Jennifer Clarke, Jesse Potts, and Sonali Roy
Good Practices and Common Pitfalls in Climate Time Series Changepoint Techniques: A Review, ROBERT B. LUND, CLAUDIE BEAULIEU, REBECCA KILLICK, QIQI LU, and XUEHENG SHI
Integrating and optimizing genomic, weather, and secondary trait data for multiclass classification, Vamsi Manthena, Diego Jarquín, and Reka Howard
Federated learning framework integrating REFINED CNN and Deep Regression Forests, Daniel Nolte, Omid Bazgir, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Federated learning framework integrating REFINED CNN and Deep Regression Forests, Daniel Nolte, Omid Bazgir, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Near-Term Effects of Perennial Grasses on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen in Eastern Nebraska, Salvador Ramirez II, Marty R. Schmer, Virginia L. Jin, Robert B. Mitchell, and Kent M. Eskridge
Early Detection of COVID-19 in Female Athletes Using Wearable Technology, Liliana I. Rentería, Casey E. Greenwalt, Sarah Johnson, Shiloah Shiloah Kviatkovsky, Marine Dupuit, Elisa Angeles, Sachin Narayanan, Tucker Zeleny, and Michael J. Ormsbee
Penguins Go Parallel: A Grammar of Graphics Framework for Generalized Parallel Coordinate Plots, Susan VanderPlas, Yawei Ge, Antony Unwin, and Heike Hofmann
Estimating the prevalence of two or more diseases using outcomes from multiplex group testing, Md S. Warasi, Joshua M. Tebbs, Christopher S. McMahan, and Christopher R. Bilder
2022
Comparative antiplatelet effects of chlorthalidone and hydrochlorothiazide, Khalid Bashir, Tammy Burns, Samuel J. Pirruccello, and Sarah J. Aurit
Genome-wide association study of disease resilience traits from a natural polymicrobial disease challenge model in pigs identifies the importance of the major histocompatibility complex region, Jian Cheng, Rohan Fernando, Hao Cheng, Stephen D. Kachman, KyuSang Lim, John C.S. Harding, Michael K. Dyck, Frederic Fortin, Graham S. Plastow, PigGen Canada Research Consortium, and Jack C.M. Dekkers
Bayesian analysis for the Lomax model using noninformative priors, Daojiang He, Dongchu Sun, and Qing Zhu
Identification of Disease Resistance Parents and Genome-Wide Association Mapping of Resistance in Spring Wheat, Muhammad Iqbal, Kassa Semagn, Diego Jarquin, Harpinder Randhawa, Brent D. McCallum, Reka Howard, Reem Aboukhaddour, Izabela Ciechanowska, Klaus Strenzke, José Crossa, J. Jesus Céron-Rojas, Amidou N’Diaye, Curtis Pozniak, and Dean Spaner
Combining phenotypic and genomic data to improve prediction of binary traits, Diego Jarquin, Arkaprava Roy, Bertrand S. Clarke, and Subhashis Ghosal
Socio‑economic inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Bangladeshi children aged 6–23 months: a decomposition analysis, Satyajit Kundu, Pranta Das, Ashfikur Rahman, Hasan Al Banna, Kaniz Fatema, Akhtarul Islam, Shobhit Srivastava, T. Muhammad, Rakhi Dey, and Ahmed Hossain
Kryging: Geostatistical analysis of large-scale datasets using Krylov subspace methods, Suman Majumder, Yawen Guan, Brian J. Reich, and Arvind K. Saibaba
Evaluating dimensionality reduction for genomic prediction, Vamsi Manthena, Diego Jarquín, Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Girish Prasad Dixit, Chellapilla Bharadwaj, and Reka Howard
Evaluating dimensionality reduction for genomic prediction, Vamsi Manthena, Diego Jarquín, Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Girish Prasad Dixit, Chellapilla Bharadwaj, and Reka Howard
Seasonal Variation in Terrestrial Invertebrate Subsidies to Tropical Streams and Implications for the Feeding Ecology of Hart’s Rivulus (Anablepsoides hartii), David C. Owens, Thomas N. Heatherly, Kent M. Eskridge, Colden V. Baxter, and Steven A. Thomas
Spatio-temporal models of infectious disease with high rates of asymptomatic transmission, Aminur Rahman, Angela Peace, Ramesh Kesawan, and Souparno Ghosh
A Survey on the Use of Plastic versus Biodegradable Bottles for Drinking Water Packaging in the United Arab Emirates, Himadri Rajput, Munjed A. Maraqa, Fatima Zraydi, Lina A. Al Khatib, Noor Ameen, Rime Ben ElKaid, Safia S. Al Jaberi, Noura A. Alharbi, Reka Howard, and Ashraf Aly Hassan
Comparing artificial-intelligence techniques with state-of-the-art parametric prediction models for predicting soybean traits, Susweta Ray, Diego Jarquin, and Reka Howard
Genomic Prediction Accuracy of Stripe Rust in Six Spring Wheat Populations by Modeling Genotype by Environment Interaction, Kassa Semagn, Muhammad Iqbal, Diego Jarquin, Harpinder Randhawa, Reem Aboukhaddour, Reka Howard, Izabela Ciechanowska, Momna Farzand, Raman Dhariwal, Colin W. Hiebert, Amidou N’Diaye, Curtis Pozniak, and Dean Spaner
Reply to Response by FBI Laboratory Filed in Illinois v. Winfield and Affidavit by Biederman et al. (2022) Filed in US v. Kaevon Sutton (2018 CF1 009709), Susan VanderPlas, Kori Khan, Heike Hofmann, and Alicia Carriquiry
Firearms and Toolmark Error Rates, Susan VanderPlas, Kori Khan, Heike Hofmann, and Alicia L. Carriquiry
Cranberry Polyphenols in Esophageal Cancer Inhibition: New Insights, Katherine M. Weh, Yun Zhang, Connor L. Howard, Amy B. Howell, Jennifer L. Clarke, and Laura A. Kresty
2021
Discussion on “Is group testing ready for prime-time in disease identification”, Christopher R. Bilder, Joshua M. Tebbs, and Christopher S. McMahan
Development of a multiplex real-time PCR assay for predicting macrolide and tetracycline resistance associated with bacterial pathogens of bovine respiratory disease, Enakshy Dutta, John Loy, Caitlyn A. Deal, Emily L. Wynn, Michael L. Clawson, Jennifer Clarke, and Bing Wang
Incorporating Molecular Markers and Causal Structure among Traits Using a Smith-Hazel Index and Structural Equation Models, Juan Valente Hidalgo-Contreras, Josafhat Salinas-Ruiz, Kent M. Eskridge, and Stephen P. Baenziger
Treatment of Inconclusive Results in Firearms Error Rate Studies, Heike Hofmann, Susan VanderPlas, and Alicia L. Carriquiry
Posterior propriety of an objective prior for generalized hierarchical normal linear models, Cong Lin, Dongchu Sun, and Chengyuan Song
A Review of Spatial Causal Inference Methods for Environmental and Epidemiological Applications, Brian J. Reich, Shu Yang, Yawen Guan, Andrew B. Giffin, Matthew J. Miller, and Ana Rappold
Corn residue baling and grazing impacts on corn yield under irrigated conservation tillage systems, Sabrina J. Ruis, Charles Burr, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Brian Olson, Mark Reiman, Daran Rudnick, Johnna Baller, and Kathryn J. Hanford
Faculty versus Student Repeatability on Evaluating Translucency of the Anterior Dentition, James L. Sheets, David B. Marx, Nina Ariani, Valentim A. R. Barão, and Alvin G. Wee
Fully Bayesian Analysis of Relevance Vector Machine Classification With Probit Link Function for Imbalanced Data Problem, Wenyang Wang, Dongchu Sun, Peng Shao, Haibo Kuang, and Cong Sui
2020
Cost Effectiveness of Sample Pooling to Test for SARS-CoV-2, Baha Abdalhamid, Christopher Richard Bilder, Jodi Louise Garrett, and Peter Charles Iwen
Representation of features as images with neighborhood dependencies for compatibility with convolutional neural networks, Omid Bazgir, Ruibo Zhang, Saugato Rahman Dhruba, Raziur Rahman, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
The role of topography, soil, and remotely sensed vegetation condition towards predicting crop yield, Trenton E. Franz, Sayli Pokal, Justin P. Gibson, Yuzhen Zhou, Hamed Gholizadeh, Fatima Amor Tenorio, Daran Rudnick, Derek M. Heeren, Matthew F. McCabe, Matteo Ziliani, Zhenong Jin, Kaiyu Guan, Ming Pan, John Gates, and Brian Wardlow
The local stability of a modified multi-strain SIR model for emerging viral strains, Miguel Fudolig and Reka Howard
A spectral adjustment for spatial confounding, Yawen Guan, Garritt L. Page, Brian J. Reich, Massimo Ventrucci, and Shu Yang
Tumor ablation due to inhomogeneous anisotropic diffusion in generic three-dimensional topologies, Erdi Kara, Aminur Rahman, Eugenio Aulisa, and Souparno Ghosh
In praise of partially interpretable predictors, Tri Le and Bertrand S. Clarke
TGCnA: temporal gene coexpression network analysis using a low-rank plus sparse framework, Jinyu Li, Yutong Lai, Chi Zhang, and Qi Zhang
Statistical Downscaling with Spatial Misalignment: Application to Wildland Fire PM2.5 Concentration Forecasting, Suman Majumder, Yawen Guan, Brian J. Reich, Susan O’Neill, and Ana G. Rappold
Association between baseline abundance of Peptoniphilus, a Gram-positive anaerobic coccus, and wound healing outcomes of DFUs, Kyung R. Min, Adriana Galvis, Katherine L. Baquerizo Nole, Rohita Sinha, Jennifer Clarke, Robert S. Kirsner, and Dragana Ajdic
Perceived Neighborhood: Preferences versus Actualities, Saeed Moradi, Ali Nejat, Da Hu, and Souparno Ghosh
Exact Distribution of Linkage Disequilibrium in the Presence of Mutation, Selection, or Minor Allele Frequency Filtering, Jiayi Qu, Stephen D. Kachman, Dorian Garrick, Rohan L. Fernando, and Hao Cheng
Economics of herbicide programs for weed control in conventional, glufosinate, and dicamba/glyphosate-resistant soybean across Nebraska, Adam M. Striegel, Kent M. Eskridge, Nevin C. Lawrence, Stevan Knezevic, Greg R. Kruger, Christopher A. Proctor, Gary Hein, and Amit J. Jhala
A High-Throughput Phenotyping Pipeline for Image Processing and Functional Growth Curve Analysis, Ronghao Wang
2019
Probabilistic modeling of personalized drug combinations from integrated chemical screen and molecular data in sarcoma, Noah E. Berlow, Rishi Rikhi, Mathew Geltzeiler, Jinu Abraham, Matthew N. Svalina, Lara E. Davis, Erin Wise, Maria Mancini, Jonathan Noujaim, Atiya Mansoor, Michael J. Quist, Kevin L. Matlock, Martin W. Goros, Brian S. Hernandez, Yee C. Doung, Khin Thway, Tomohide Tsukahara, Jun Nishio, Elaine T. Huang, Susan Airhart, Carol J. Bult, Regina Gandour-Edwards, Robert G. Maki, Robin L. Jones, Joel E. Michalek, Milan Milovancev, Souparno Ghosh, Ranadip Pal, and Charles Keller
Informative Group Testing for Multiplex Assays, Christopher R. Bilder, Joshua M. Tebbs, and Christopher S. McMahan
Cost-effective Surveillance for Infectious Diseases Through Specimen Pooling and Multiplex Assays, Christopher Bilder, Joshua Tebbs, and Christopher McMahan
Recursive model for dose-time responses in pharmacological studies, Saugato Rahman Dhruba, Aminur Rahman, Raziur Rahman, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Soil Fauna Accelerate Dung Pat Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling into Grassland Soil, Kenneth S. Evans, Martha Mamo, Ana Wingeyer, Walter Schacht, Kent Eskridge, Jeff Bradshaw, and Daniel Ginting
Post-ER Stress Biogenesis of Golgi Is Governed by Giantin, Cole P. Frisbie, Alexander Y. Lushnikov, Alexey V. Krasnoslobodtsev, Jean-Jack Riethoven, Jennifer L. Clarke, Elena I. Stepchenkova, and Armen Petrosyan
Genomic Prediction Using Canopy Coverage Image and Genotypic Information in Soybean via a Hybrid Model, Reka Howard and Diego Jarquin
Functional random forest with applications in dose-response predictions, Raziur Rahman, Saugato Rahman Dhruba, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
2018
Application of transfer learning for cancer drug sensitivity prediction, Saugato Rahman Dhruba, Raziur Rahman, Kevin Matlock, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Characterization of Soybean Protein Adhesives Modified by Xanthan Gum, Chen Feng, Fang Wang, Zheng Xu, Huilin Sui, Yong Fang, Xiaozhi Tang, and Xinchun Shen
Investigation of model stacking for drug sensitivity prediction, Kevin Matlock, Carlos De Niz, Raziur Rahman, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Development of 11-Plex MOL-PCR Assay for the Rapid Screening of Samples for Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli, Travis A. Woods, Heather M. Mendez, Sandy Ortega, Xiaorong Shi, David Marx, Jianfa Bai, Rodney A. Moxley, T. G. Nagaraja, Steven W. Graves, and Alina Deshpande
Existing and Potential Statistical and Computational Approaches for the Analysis of 3D CT Images of Plant Roots, Zheng Xu, Camilo Valdes, and Jennifer Clarke
2017
Perennial warm-season grasses for producing biofuel and enhancing soil properties: An alternative to corn residue removal, Humberto Blanco-Canqui, Robert B. Mitchell, Virginia L. Jin, Marty R. Schmer, and Kent M. Eskridge
Trans-ancestry Fine Mapping and Molecular Assays Identify Regulatory Variants at the ANGPTL8 HDL-C GWAS Locus, Maren E. Cannon, Qing Duan, Ying Wu, Monica Zeynalzadeh, Zheng Xu, Antti J. Kangas, Pasi Soininen, Mika Ala-Korpela, Mete Civelek, Aldons J. Lusis, Johanna Kuusisto, Francis S. Collins, Michael Boehnke, Hua Tang, Markku Laakso, Yun Li, and Karen L. Mohlke
Evaluating Current Practices in Shelf Life Estimation, Robert Capen, David Christopher, Patrick Forenzo, Kim Huynh-Ba, David LeBlond, Oscar Liu, John O'Neill, Nate Patterson, Michelle Quinlan, Radhika Rajagopalan, James Schwenke, and Walter W. Stroup
Joint hierarchical models for sparsely sampled high-dimensional LiDAR and forest variables, Andrew O. Finley, Sudipto Banerjee, Yuzhen Zhou, Bruce D. Cook, and Chad Babcock
Application of Response Surface Methods To Determine Conditions for Optimal Genomic Prediction, Reka Howard, Alicia L. Carriquiry, and William D. Beavis
Increasing Genomic-Enabled Prediction Accuracy by Modeling Genotype x Environment Interactions in Kansas Wheat, Diego Jarquin, Cristiano Lemas da Silva, R. Chris Gaynor, Jesse Poland, Allan Fritz, Reka Howard, Sarah Battenfield, and José Crossa
A Bayes Interpretation of Stacking for M-Complete and M-Open Settings, Tri Le and Bertrand S. Clarke
Heterogeneity Aware Random Forest for Drug Sensitivity Prediction, Raziur Rahman, Kevin Matlock, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Assessing the Impact of Retreat Mechanisms in a Simple Antarctic Ice Sheet Model Using Bayesian Calibration, Kelsey L. Ruckert, Gary Shaffer, David Pollard, Yawen Guan, Tony E. Wong, Chris E. Forest, and Klaus Keller
Generalized Confidence Intervals Compatible with the Min Test for Simultaneous Comparisons of One Subpopulation to Several Other Subpopulations, Julia N. Soulakova
Impact of Menthol Smoking on Nicotine Dependence for Diverse Racial/Ethnic Groups of Daily Smokers, Julia N. Soulakova and Ryan R. Danczak
2016
EnsCat: clustering of categorical data via ensembling, Bertrand S. Clarke, Saeid Amiri, and Jennifer L. Clarke
The impact of hair coat color on longevity of Holstein cows in the tropics, C. N. Lee, K. S. Baek, and A. Parkhurst
Genomic Bayesian Prediction Model for Count Data with Genotype x Environment Interaction, Abelardo Montesinos-López, Osval A. Montesinos-López, José Crossa, Juan Burgueño, Kent M. Eskridge, Esteban Falconi-Castillo, Xinyao He, Pawan Singh, and Karen Cichy
A Genomic Bayesian Multi-trait and Multi-environment Model, Osval A. Montesinos-López, Abelardo Montesinos-López, José Crossa, Fernando Toledo, Oscar Pérez-Hernández, Kent M. Eskridge, and Jessica Rutkoski
Sex-specific hippocampal 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is disrupted in response to acute stress, Ligia A. Papale, Sisi Li, Andy Madrid, Qi Zhang, Li Chen, Pankaj Chopra, Peng Jin, Sunduz Keles, and Reid S. Alisch
Species discovery and diversity in Lobocriconema (Criconematidae: Nematoda) and related plant-parasitic nematodes from North American ecoregions, Tom Powers, Ernest C. Bernard, T. Harris, Robert Higgins, M. Olson, S. Olson, M. Lodema, Julianne N. Matczyszyn, P. Mullin, L. Sutton, and K.S Powers
Design of Probabilistic Random Forests with Applications to Anticancer Drug Sensitivity Prediction- 2016, Raziur Rahman, Saad Haider, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
A Compendium of Chromatin Contact Maps Reveals Spatially Active Regions in the Human Genome, Anthony D. Schmitt, Ming Hu, Inkyung Jung, Zheng Xu, Yunjiang Qiu, Catherine L. Tan, Yun Li, Shin Lin, Yiing Lin, Cathy L. Barr, and Bing Ren
How Often Are Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Said to “Evolve” in the News?, Nina Singh, Matthew T. Sit, Deanna M. Chung, Ana A. Lopez, Ranil Weerackoon, and Pamela J. Yeh
A BAYESIAN GWAS METHOD UTILIZING HAPLOTYPE CLUSTERS FOR A COMPOSITE BREED POPULATION, Danielle F. Wilson-Wells and Stephen D. Kachman
Optimal Design of Low-Density SNP Arrays for Genomic Prediction: Algorithm and Applications, Xiao-Lin Wu, Jiaqi Xu, Guofei Feng, George R. Wiggans, Jeremy F. Taylor, Jun He, Changsong Qian, Jiansheng Qiu, Barry Simpson, Jeremy Walker, and Stewart Bauck
HiView: an integrative genome browser to leverage Hi‑C results for the interpretation of GWAS variants, Zheng Xu, Guosheng Zhang, Qing Duan, Shengjie Chai, Baqun Zhang, Cong Wu, Fulai Jin, Feng Yue, Yun Li, and Ming Hu
Systematic evaluation of the impact of ChIP-seq read designs on genome coverage, peak identification, and allele-specific binding detection, Qi Zhang, Xin Zeng, Sam Younkin, Trupti Kawli, Michael P. Snyder, and Sündüz Kele
2015
Measuring Peer Socialization for Adolescent Substance Use:A Comparison of Perceived and Actual Friends’ Substance Use Effects, Arielle R. Deutsch, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Douglas Steinley, and Wendy S. Slutske
A Copula Based Approach for Design of Multivariate Random Forests for Drug Sensitivity Prediction, Saad Haider, Raziur Rahman, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
S1: Supplementary Information for Article: A copula based approach for design of multivariate random forests for drug sensitivity prediction, Saad Haider, Raziur Rahman, Souparno Ghosh, and Ranadip Pal
Effect of dexamethasone prodrug on inflamed temporomandibular joints in juvenile rats, Mitchell Knudsen, Matthew Bury, Callie Holwegner, Adam L. Reinhardt, Fang Yuan, Yijia Zhang, Peter Giannini, D. B. Marx, Dong Wang, and Richard A. Reinhardt