A previous version of this article incorrectly classified Cornell Computing and Information Science as a department that fell under three colleges. It is actually a stand-alone multi-disciplinary unit ...

The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) has hosted a four-day workshop, “Statistics for Ecology, Genetics and Genomics Using R” that advanced the participants’ understanding of the role of statistical ...

Two major goals in the study of biological systems are inference and prediction. Inference creates a mathematical model of the data-generation process to formalize understanding or test a hypothesis ...

The "biometric school" founded by K. Pearson, F. Galton, and W. F. R. Weldon was concerned especially with heredity and variation, and between the wars "biometry" was not widely used as a general term ...

A person’s chronological age is based on when they were born. Biological age, however, is determined based on biological and physiological development factors. When asked how old you are, you likely ...