Many bankers hear the term “Statistical Significance” but don’t know what it means and how it is relevant to potential fair lending violations. Typically, when an examiner is evaluating if a bank is ...

The perennial question facing all banks is, “What volume of lending in Majority-Minority census tracts and mortgages extended to minority home borrowers must we do to avoid redlining allegations by ...

It may be common knowledge that p < .05 indicates statistical significance. Psychology students (and others) are often taught that p < .05 means the probability (p) of rejecting the null hypothesis ...

Research is usually denoted to be effective with the terms “statistically significant”. If a significant difference is observed, the difference between groups is pronounced. Researchers are now ...

The books Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics (Wheeler, 1976) and Damned Lies and Statistics (Best, 2001) have raised questions about whether statistics can be trusted. A number of educated people today, ...

Valen E. Johnson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health to perform biostatistical research on the selection of variables associated with cancer and cancer research. In their ...

Everyone wants to feel that their work has contributed something – that they added some order to a seemingly random world, or that their significance in the scheme of things is more than zero. In ...

Here we present HiC-DC, a principled method to estimate the statistical significance (P values) of chromatin interactions from Hi-C experiments. HiC-DC uses hurdle negative binomial regression account ...