How much alcohol is “too much,” in terms of cancer risk? Identifying causes helps us make decisions — both as individuals and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Correlation matrices play a key role in many multivariate methods (e.g., graphical model estimation and factor analysis). The current state-of ...

Too many leaders take an incomplete approach to understanding empirical patterns, leading to costly mistakes and misinterpretations. As we have discussed before, one extremely common mistake is ...

The statistical relationship between human height and weight is of especial importance to clinical medicine, epidemiology, and the biology of human development. Yet, after more than a century of ...

Statistical mechanics provides a fundamental framework for understanding how collective phenomena in many-body systems give rise to macroscopic changes in state, known as phase transitions. Research ...

Q: I’m writing in response to data you shared surrounding the increase in traffic fatalities. A question comes to mind: Are there statistics compiled showing overall traffic enforcement, and any trend ...

A dramatic statistical correlation between the prevalence of diabetes and air pollution levels has been demonstrated by a UB researcher who published his observations in the journal, Diabetes Care.

Labor market conditions are similar in regions that are near each other. This is called positive spatial correlation.