attack on campus…
Today, my day as a professor at The Ohio State University started like most other days – I spent time reviewing the assigned reading for my 10:20 class and refined a list of questions to discuss with the students. As…
paper for lab meeting 4/27
We discussed this paper by Dan Schrider et al. on the the effects of selective sweeps on demographic inference. The paper is also the subject of a blog post on The Molecular Ecologist. We ended up having a disagreement between…
Machine learning / ABC paper for lab meeting
We’ll discuss a paper by Pudlo.etal.2015 that applies random forest machine learning to model choice using ABC. So many things to potentially like about this one…. See the manuscript at the Journal of Bioinformatics for more information.
P-values, statistics, and historical science
I stumbled across a series of articles about P-values on fivethirtyeight.com that explore how P-values are used and interpreted by scientists. One of the articles includes reporting about a recently-published statement by the American Statistical Association on P-values, which concludes “Informally, a…
Paper for lab meeting 03/09/16
We’re planning on discussing this paper by Schiffels + Durbin for lab meeting on Wednesday, March 9. It applies the MSMC model to genomic data from human populations. Schiffels+Durbin.2014
Paper for lab meeting 03/02/16
We’ll be reading this paper by Knowles et al. recently published in the Journal of Biogeography for lab meeting on March 2. It’s a comparative phylogeography paper that analyzes SNP data using a statistical technique known as a Procrustes analysis. Knowles.etal.2016…
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