System-wide measurements of gene expression by DNA microarray and, more recently, RNA-sequencing strategies have become de facto tools of modern biology and have led to deep understanding of ...

The data scientist’s goal is to simultaneously reduce bias and variance as much as possible in order to obtain as accurate model as is feasible. However, there is a tradeoff to be made when selecting ...

Quick—if you had to guess, what would you think is most likely to end all life on Earth: a meteor strike, climate change or a solar flare? (Choose carefully.) A new statistical method could help ...