Updated:
The F-test is a family of statistical tests built on the F-distribution — the ratio of two independent chi-squared variables divided by their degrees of freedom. It answers three fundamental questions in applied statistics:
Updated:
Hypothesis testing is the formal procedure for deciding whether sample data provide sufficient evidence to reject a claim about a population parameter. The Z-test and t-test are the two workhorses for testing means. This post covers the theory, assumptions, null (H0) / alternative hypotheses (H1), test statistics, and full R walkthroughs with real-style datasets.
Updated:
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) increase their popularity among medical, biological, and social sciences to identify the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms and phenotypic traits. This tutorial aims to provide a guidelines for conducing genome wide analysis in Tassel.
Updated:
Structure Software is a freely available software package that one may use for rigorous investigation of admixed individuals; identification of point of hybridization and migrants; and estimate over all structure of a population using a commonly used genetic markers such as SNPs and SSRs. This software was developed by Pritchard Lab at Stanford University and can downloaded at this link.
Updated:
MapChart is a free software to plot publishing quality genetic linkage maps as well as QTLs. This software was developed at Wageningen University by Roeland E. Voorrips and can be downloaded at this link .
Updated:
There exist some definite gaps “from performing of an experiment to the formulation of a hypothesis”. It is not necessary that a person good at lab work must be an expert in scientific writing too.
Updated:
GitHub Pages runs in safe mode and only allows a set of whitelisted plugins. To use the gem in GitHub Pages, one of the workarounds is to use CI (e.g. travis, github workflow) and deploy to your gh-pages branch like: jekyll-deploy-action, and I use this plugin: jekyll-spaceship in my github pages.
Updated:
One thing I haven’t covered in my previous posts on creating and customizing an academic website is how to actually add content to your site. You know, the stuff that’s the reason why people go to your website in the first place? If you’ve followed those guides, your website should be professional looking and already feeling a little bit different from the stock template. However, adding new pages or tweaking the existing pages can be a little intimidating, and I realized I should probably walk through how to do so. Luckily Jekyll’s use of Markdown makes it really easy to add new content!