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View article: Battle of the Bands: Trying to Identify Contributions to a Collaboration
Battle of the Bands: Trying to Identify Contributions to a Collaboration Open
In this article, we create and explore a dataset containing musical and lyrical features for tracks from three rock bands—Manchester Orchestra, The Front Bottoms, and All Get Out—all of whom contributed to a collaborative track, “Allentown…
View article: Assessing generalizability of a dengue classifier across multiple datasets
Assessing generalizability of a dengue classifier across multiple datasets Open
Early diagnosis of dengue fever is important for individual treatment and monitoring disease prevalence in the population. To assist diagnosis, previous studies have proposed classification models to detect dengue from symptoms and clinica…
View article: Learning While Learning: Psychology Case Studies for Teaching Regression
Learning While Learning: Psychology Case Studies for Teaching Regression Open
In this article, we explore the use of two published datasets for teaching a wide range of students about regression models, with a particular focus on interaction terms. The two datasets come from recent psychology studies on beliefs abou…
View article: Sequential label shift detection in classification data: An application to dengue fever
Sequential label shift detection in classification data: An application to dengue fever Open
Classifiers have been developed to help diagnose dengue fever in patients presenting with febrile symptoms. However, classifier predictions often rely on the assumption that new observations come from the same distribution as training data…
View article: Two-sample testing with local community depth
Two-sample testing with local community depth Open
In this paper, we investigate nonparametric two-sample hypothesis testing with local community depth, a measure of data depth calculated from pairwise distances between observations. Unlike many common “center-outwards” measures of data de…
View article: Repurposing a Peer-Reviewed Publication to Engage Students in Statistics: An Illustration of Study Design, Data Collection, and Analysis
Repurposing a Peer-Reviewed Publication to Engage Students in Statistics: An Illustration of Study Design, Data Collection, and Analysis Open
Engaging and motivating students in undergraduate statistics courses can be enhanced by using topical peer-reviewed publications for analyses as part of course assignments. Given the popularity of on-campus therapy dog stress-reduction pro…
View article: Assessing generalizability of a dengue classifier across multiple datasets
Assessing generalizability of a dengue classifier across multiple datasets Open
Early diagnosis of dengue fever is important for individual treatment and monitoring disease prevalence in the population. To assist diagnosis, previous studies have proposed classification models to detect dengue from symptoms and clinica…
View article: Increasing Student Access to and Readiness for Statistical Competitions
Increasing Student Access to and Readiness for Statistical Competitions Open
Statistical competitions like ASA DataFest and the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon give students valuable experience working with real, challenging data. By participating, students practice important statistics and data science skill…
View article: Receptor exocytosis imaged with high temporal resolution for diverse receptor cargos
Receptor exocytosis imaged with high temporal resolution for diverse receptor cargos Open
Cells perceive and interact with their environment in part through the expression, activation, and regulation of receptors on their plasma membrane. These receptors are dynamically trafficked from the plasma membrane in a process called en…
View article: Receptor exocytosis imaged with high temporal resolution for diverse receptor cargos
Receptor exocytosis imaged with high temporal resolution for diverse receptor cargos Open
Cells perceive and interact with their environment in part through the expression, activation, and regulation of receptors on their plasma membrane. These receptors are dynamically trafficked from the plasma membrane in a process called en…
View article: Regression, Transformations, and Mixed-Effects with Marine Bryozoans
Regression, Transformations, and Mixed-Effects with Marine Bryozoans Open
This article demonstrates how data from a biology paper, which analyzes the relationship between mass and metabolic rate for two species of marine bryozoan, can be used to teach a variety of regression topics to both introductory and advan…
View article: Think-Aloud Interviews: A Tool for Exploring Student Statistical Reasoning
Think-Aloud Interviews: A Tool for Exploring Student Statistical Reasoning Open
Think-aloud interviews have been a valuable but underused tool in statistics education research. Think-alouds, in which students narrate their reasoning in real time while solving problems, differ in important ways from other types of cogn…
View article: Inference with generalizable classifier predictions
Inference with generalizable classifier predictions Open
This paper addresses the problem of making statistical inference about a population that can only be identified through classifier predictions. The problem is motivated by scientific studies in which human labels of a population are replac…
View article: Sequential changepoint detection for label shift in classification
Sequential changepoint detection for label shift in classification Open
Classifier predictions often rely on the assumption that new observations come from the same distribution as training data. When the underlying distribution changes, so does the optimal classifier rule, and predictions may no longer be val…
View article: Sequential changepoint detection in classification data under label shift
Sequential changepoint detection in classification data under label shift Open
Classifier predictions often rely on the assumption that new observations come from the same distribution as training data. When the underlying distribution changes, so does the optimal classification rule, and performance may degrade. We …
View article: isle-project/isle-editor: Beta Release - December 2019 - 0.43.0
isle-project/isle-editor: Beta Release - December 2019 - 0.43.0 Open
Editor for ISLE (Integrated Statistics Learning Environment) lessons.
View article: Selecting between-sample RNA-Seq normalization methods from the perspective of their assumptions
Selecting between-sample RNA-Seq normalization methods from the perspective of their assumptions Open
RNA-Seq is a widely-used method for studying the behavior of genes under different biological conditions. An essential step in an RNA-Seq study is normalization, in which raw data are adjusted to account for factors that prevent direct com…
View article: Genome-Wide Transcriptional Response to Varying RpoS Levels in Escherichia coli K-12
Genome-Wide Transcriptional Response to Varying RpoS Levels in Escherichia coli K-12 Open
The alternative sigma factor RpoS is a central regulator of many stress responses in Escherichia coli . The level of functional RpoS differs depending on the stress. The effect of these differing concentrations of RpoS on global transcript…
View article: The genome-wide transcriptional response to varying RpoS levels in<i>Escherichia coli</i>K-12
The genome-wide transcriptional response to varying RpoS levels in<i>Escherichia coli</i>K-12 Open
The alternative sigma factor RpoS is a central regulator of a many stress responses in Escherichia coli. The level of functional RpoS differs depending on the stress. The effect of these differing concentrations of RpoS on global transcrip…
View article: Selecting between-sample RNA-Seq normalization methods from the\n perspective of their assumptions
Selecting between-sample RNA-Seq normalization methods from the\n perspective of their assumptions Open
RNA-Seq is a widely-used method for studying the behavior of genes under\ndifferent biological conditions. An essential step in an RNA-Seq study is\nnormalization, in which raw data are adjusted to account for factors that\nprevent direct …