Questions tagged [biostatistics]
The science of statistics applied to the analysis of biological or medical data.
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What do ellipses of PCA analysis (factoextra) mean?
Biological question: do plants that have been attacked by insects differ in their characteristics from plants that have not been attacked by insects?
Data frame includes six numerical variables ...
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RNA-seq: probabiliy of at least one type I error
I need to find a mathematical expression for the probability of finding at leat one type I error. I know that in general that probabilty is: P=1-(1-a)^m. With a being the probabily of making a type I ...
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Proportion and rates from counts data - how to analyse? [on hold]
I'm quite new to statistics.
I want to see if specific primate behaviours change after a health-screening. I watched some videos from before and after the screening and I recorded the length of time ...
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Stratified Log Rank Test with Unequally Sized Strata
If I perform a stratified log rank test in a situation with many strata (currently I have 8), in 6 of the 8 there are very small numbers (i.e., 1 or 2%), but the other strata are fairly balanced, how ...
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How to get confidence intervals for Patient-Years?
In medicine patient-years is a popular concept. Example: $100$ patients are followed for $2$ years. In this case, there are $200$ patient-years in total.
If there were $8$ myocardial infarctions in ...
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Cox regression different results with different combinations of variables
I need help understanding how to use cox hazzard model to calculate risk of death in data from a cohort study.
I have a set of data on physical activity and I want to do a cox regression on ...
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What is the equation to calculate the sample size for A/B testing? [closed]
I have been searching for information on how to calculate sample size for A/B testing. My research was fruitless. I found many online calculators, but not any blog/paper that explains how the ...
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How to find difference between data recorded for 1431 variables for X subjects, across 3 time points?
I am doing research using magnetoencephalography (MEG). I'm performing coherence analysis which, briefly, is a measure of neuronal synchronicity and functional connectivity.
For each subject scanned ...
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Converting annual survival rate to daily mortality probability
In a peer-reviewed paper, I came across the following conversion:
Yearly survival rate -> 0.70
The authors have calculated the daily probability of death using
(1 - 0.70^(1/365.25)) = 0.000976
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How to test whether individual fits to regression line or not
I have a defined regression model for the healthy control (HC) group, with corresponding CIs of coefficients and of E(Y).
I would like to test whether individuals belonging to another population (...
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Is this an example of where I shouldn't scale before doing PCA / PLS?
I'm working with NMR spectra (it's a common chemical test).
There are various peaks of the signal across a range of ppm values. I'm trying to relate the NMR spectra of various samples to a ...
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Chargaff's rule and degrees of freedom of the chisquare
I have a question regarding if and how one should take into account for the extra knowledge that he/she has of a model when determining the degrees of freedom of a distribution, in my case the chi-...
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When knowledge of one event tells us nothing about another
I have an example;
Say I have two genes on two different locations on two different chromosomes.
P(A) = gene is from location 1
P(B) = gene is from location 2
Geneticists believe that knowledge of ...
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What type of a test will I perform in R?
I have a dataset which contains data observed for patients who were hospitalized for moderate or severe infection and given one of two antibiotics. The number of days each patient was hospitalized ...
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Cox proportional hazard analysis with non-uniform samples; power analysis
We have a study involving 10,000 patients, 5,000 of them treated with drug A and 5,000 with drug B. We want to know if drug A is more effective than B. The median time to event (death) after treatment ...
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sample size calculation in 3-arm survival analysis
In a 3-arms clinical trial, with time to event data, either A is superior to C or B is superior to C it will be considered significant. No need to compare A and B.
I know how to calculate the sample ...
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Choosing appropriate statistical tests
I am trying to run stats on medical treatment data and would like your guys and girls help
Goal: Comparing two trends of annual percentages for statistical significance. Is one decreasing due to the ...
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Batch differences in biochemical measurements - statistical solutions?
I'm working with inflammatory markers from human participants in a current study and have been stumped by between-batch differences. One third of the participants had their inflammatory markers ...
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How to identify the difference in significance of two different z test for two proportion test?
I have two cell types (A and B) in a tissue. I have 5 replicates of RNA sequencing data in control and treatment condition for cell type and B separately. We are interested in identifying genes which ...
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Given two related ratios within a population, derive a third ratio (eg. redheads, non-redheads, and skin cancer)
If
People X are N times more likely to have attribute A than non-X
People X are P percent of the population
then
What percentage of A's are X?
Example (the numbers are just for illustration).
If
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What test do I use for this? (NOOB biostatistics question)
Suppose I have some subjects and I give each of them a test. I would end up with a dataset like:
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Rank non-normally distributed sets of integers: long read sequencing and phase blocks
I have about 20 arrays of empirical integer values, which are each not normally distributed, with long tails. I am looking for a 'sane and sound' metric on how to sort these distributions, "with ...
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Log transformed data
When you log transform data what is being tested on the original scale of the data? And why can we use our log transformed data to answer our scientific question?
We are looking at data comparing ...
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How can I isolate objects from a 3D image volume using normally distributed geometric features
I have '.tif' image stacks that I am analyzing as volumes. For every object, I can get the Volume, surface area:volume, 'sphericity' and Euler number. For every one of those features, the objects I am ...
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Emergence of Lognormal distribution for the concentration of chemical compounds
I'm currently reviewing the literature about lognormal distributions describing/approximating the variability of a given chemical compound across different cells/ samples etc etc.
The main argument ...
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Statistical testing in clinical research
I just did a univariate binary logistic regression to classify a disease based on some medical parameters.
Now only one variable showed significant result (p-value < 0.05). Assuming sufficient ...
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How to use Cullen and Frey graphs for downstream statistical analysis? [closed]
How to use Cullen and Frey graphs for downstream statistical analysis?
I do not see any difference in normalized and raw data Cullen and Frey plots!
Raw data
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Model for missing data at baseline?
I am interested in looking at the effects duration of a certain medicine has on an outcome over time assuming the effects to be nonlinear. Some people would have baseline data of before starting ...
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Environmental variables and management
I have a dataset with 7 forest sites, each with a paired managed and unmanaged stand. In these stands I have 4 - 19 plots where insects have been sampled. Additionally, we also collected a number of ...
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Confidence interval for Population Attributable Fraction with several strata
I have used aggregated data to create a table of person-years (pys) and deaths by social class, age and sex.
If we consider social class to be a modifiable factor, we can calculate the number of '...
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How to report robust anovas (WRS2::t2way and t3way): no df
I have done experiments with a parasitic wasp species, comparing its life table parameters (response variables: longevity (in days), number of offspring and development time of offspring (in days)) ...
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Calculating confidence intervals for “excess events”
I have a study that shows 100 deaths occurred in a cohort of high-risk people. Given mortality rates in the general population, you would only expect 70 deaths to occur. The standardised mortality ...
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Real 1 dimensional non-binary data where Cox Proportional hazards model fails
I am learning about the Cox Proportional Hazards model and understood that it is very flexible, even when the assumption of proportional hazards is not met, e.g. for additive hazards. But say we have ...
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Getting ecological statistics right: Learning by yourself
I'm not really asking for reference on ecological statistics (such as here or here), but more on how you can be sure you're doing a new analysis you just learned correctly. I'm often stuck trying to ...
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What does the decomposition of a relative risk look like?
Say I have a relative risk of smokers that smoked 1-20 cigarettes per day. What is the mathematical identity between that RR, the RR of those that smoked 1-10 cig/day, and RR of those that smoked 11-...
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How to make a random draw from a mgcv GAM model
Hi there statistical wizards!
I have a (maybe) minor problem, where I would like to use the predicted fit (fit) and standard error (...
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Model for semicontinuous data with structural and sampling (true and false) zeros
I am dealing with a very hard-to-work data set: fish larval density. It is a semicontinuous data, with 90% of zeros and a right-skewed distribution, with few very large values.
One problem is that ...
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Can ANCOVA be used for the following model
Suppose I have 3 treatment groups, and I have pre- and post-treatment test results. There are also 4 covariates which theoreticlaly can influence the post-outcome. So is it possible to find which ...
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The difference between the cumulative baseline hazard and the cumulative hazard?
I'm not sure what is the difference between the cumulative baseline hazard and the cumulative hazard?
Could you please explain it if you are an expert in this field?
Thanks
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Sample Calculation of Morisita's Overlap Index
I am actually a biologist who has as question regarding how to apply the Morisita's Overlap Index. I have been told to compare two plant species by using this index and 3 other variables for each ...
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Risk prediction equation for disease based on concentrations of circulating proteins
I want to derive a risk prediction equation for disease D based on Pa and Pb, where Pa and Pb are concentrations of circulating proteins in the blood.
Disease D has two sub types: Da and Db.
In Da, ...
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Statistical test for change in prognostic score pre-treatment vs. post-treatment
I am working with medical data and specifically determining whether Treatment_X is safe in certain prognostic groups of patients with chronic liver disease.
To summarize: a common prognostic score ...
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Adjacency matrix of amino-acid residue [closed]
How to get the mathematical representation of the chemical bonds in protein residue or the whole protein? Is it possible to get the connectivity matrix or a pairwise description?
The example in the ...
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Matching in a case control study
I'm working for a physician who thinks they would like to run a matched case control study, matching on 3 covariates, to assess the effect of exposure to a drug on an outcome. I've never done a case ...
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Stratify phylogeny based on variables - e.g. which ST are represented by high % males
So I have tree file and metadata.
Metadata includes sequence type ST (clusters that correspond in most part to the phylogeny), but also some patient data, age, sex etc.
I am trying to identify which ...
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Can iterative PCA be applied to grouped data?
My data set consist of 156 individuals with fifteen variables. The variables consist of one body mass (dependent) variable and fourteen (independent) variables of different bird bone dimensions (of ...
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Controlling for confounding variables in linear mixed effects models (lmer)
I'm using lmer to test how multiple variables (in this case, treatment, species, and sex) influence avian behaviour.
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Confidence interval from sample quantiles
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I am running some stochastic simulations in R to determine appropriate sample sizes for a biological problem of interest to me.
My method iteratively generates "accumulation" curves which ...
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I squared for measuring homogeneity
I can't seem to find a simple resource that explains what I can use the I2 (derived from Cochrane's Q), often used in meta-analyses for, exactly. Most, if not all resources I find on the subject go on ...
