Data analysis is no longer a specialist skill reserved for analysts. It now supports finance, trading, ecommerce, marketing, ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

Authors: Karl W Broman and Hao Wu, with ideas from Gary Churchill and Śaunak Sen and contributions from Danny Arends, Robert Corty, Timothée Flutre, Ritsert Jansen, Pjotr Prins, Lars Rönnegård, Rohan ...

R-package which allows the user to fit structural equation models based on the summary statistics obtained from genome wide association studies (GWAS). Note that a recent update includes the ability ...

When I go to the doctor, they ask what I do, and when I tell them, they start complaining to me about the software at the hospital. I love this, because I hate going to the doctor, and it gives us ...

Background: There is interest in the use geospatial data for development of acute stroke services given the importance of timely access to acute reperfusion therapy. This paper aims to introduce ...

When was the last time you heard a seminar speaker claim there was ‘no difference’ between two groups because the difference was ‘statistically non-significant’? If your experience matches ours, there ...

R is hot. Whether measured by more than 10,000 add-on packages, the 95,000+ members of LinkedIn’s R group or the more than 400 R Meetup groups currently in existence, there can be little doubt that ...

If you are reading this article, you’ve likely heard of the programming language R but may be avoiding it. R is a programming language for statistical computing and graphics that you can use to clean, ...

Below are some great tutorials that are freely available online and are great introductory tools for getting you started on your journey to R mastery. This is a great interface that makes R more ...

As with most statistical analyses, an important computational step is estimating the parameters of the LMM. Although the details of this are beyond the scope of this mini-review, the reader should be ...

For years, geneticist Helene Royo used commercial software to analyse her work. She would extract DNA from the developing sperm cells of mice, send it for analysis and then fire up a package called ...