Lehman College Biostatistics
@LC_biostat
Bio 240. Biostatistics. Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College CUNY, Bronx, New York USA
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Indigenous cultures of the American Great Plains and northern Rockies had integrated domestic horses of Spanish ancestry into their lifeways long before the arrival of European colonizers to the region, according to a 2023 Science study. Learn more: scim.ag/3ISjjuM…
New comparisons of pelvic development in human and primate embryos reveal key steps in human evolution. Learn more: scim.ag/4obTTam @NewsfromScience
Tardigrades are small invertebrates renowned for their resistance to harsh environmental conditions, including ionizing radiation that would kill many organisms. By studying a species of tardigrade identified last year, researchers in Science have gleaned valuable insights into…
Perspective by Peter Marks, MD, PhD, former head of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research: Restoring Confidence in Public Health nej.md/3WwaGJe #MedicalEthics
In 2020, scientists discovered that dog noses can sense weak thermal radiation, including the body heat of mammalian prey. The find could help explain how pups with impaired sight, hearing, or smell can still hunt successfully. #WorldAnimalDay scim.ag/48cze1i
Obituary: Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists go.nature.com/4pWj5mX
Huber Regression is a robust statistical method that combines the best of Ordinary Least Squares and Mean Absolute Error. It's less sensitive to outliers, making it ideal for noisy datasets. In ML, it's used for stable model training. In real life, it's applied in econometrics…
Happy to share our new editorial for the @BJSM_BMJ on the interpretation of statistical estimates and P-values! doi.org/10.1136/bjspor… @Mohamma70696197 @StevenStovitz @Lester_Domes
'Statistics is the art of stating in precise terms that which one does not know.' -- William Kruskal
Interesting, nuanced, and sometimes contentious discussion about the validity and interpretation of confidence intervals for observational research: discourse.datamethods.org/t/how-to-inter… #epidemiology #Statistics
“Mathematicians, pure and applied, think there is something weirdly different about statistics. They are right.” -- James Franklin
Between 800,000 and 900,000 years ago, the population of human ancestors crashed, a 2023 Science study finds. The results suggest there were only ~1280 breeding individuals during the transition between the early and middle Pleistocene. scim.ag/4g5PhQa…
Obituaries capture the best in people. An analysis of 38 million obituaries from the United States found that many focused on the values of tradition and benevolence. Major events shape obits: The COVID-19 pandemic has eroded benevolence. In PNAS: ow.ly/ZKgN50WRma3
Now, with AI tools and rampant cheating, the protection of academic and intellectual integrity are being propped up by pen and paper. Taking Exams in Blue Books? They're Back to Help Curb AI Use and Rampant Cheating kqed.org/mindshift/6499…
Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for anti-aging gene therapy paper. retractionwatch.com/2025/08/13/geo…
“Contested paper on vaccines, autism in rats retracted by journal.” thetransmitter.org/spectrum/conte…
NIH is “moving to prohibit scientists from collecting data about gender.” chronicle.com/article/gender…
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“Peer reviewers altered their recommendation based on whether they were cited or wanted to be cited.” osf.io/preprints/osf/…
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