Nomograms are widely used for cancer prognosis, primarily because of their ability to reduce statistical predictive models into a single numerical estimate of the probability of an event, such as ...

This recent title, “The Art of Statistics – How to Learn from Data,” by University of Cambridge statistician David Spiegalhalter, is an important book on a number of fronts. First, it’s an excellent ...

Winnifred Louis receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is a teacher of statistics in the University of Queensland, ...

In this short course we will cover how to analyze simple and multiple linear regression models. You will learn concepts in linear regression such as: 1) How to use the F-test to determine if your ...

Skewness measures the symmetry of your data. It can indicate whether or not your data adheres to a normal distribution. It’s okay for your data to have skewness, it can indicate outliers in your data ...