Many economically important characteristics of agricultural crops are measured as ordinal traits. Statistical analysis of the genetic basis of ordinal traits appears to be quite different from regular ...

An asymmetric statistical model provides a better fit for imbalanced data with rare "positives," such as longitudinal health datasets. Sometimes, a more complex but more accurate model is needed when ...

Sometimes, a more complex but more accurate model is needed when the standard off-the-shelf models just do not cut it. That is the message from researchers from KAUST’s Statistics Program. One ...