3 ms·

statistics

• qzx_pierri 7y ago
  [citation needed]
  • acdha 7y ago
    It’s a scientific study so the citation is literally present in the story if you want to learn what they did: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7693 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aat7693
• superpermutat0r 7y ago
  Curse of dimensionality and statistical significance are terms I used in my comment. I'm quite aware of the statistical methods and am a bit confused about how they avoid the dimensionality problem. I'm pretty sure I could get statistical significance for any trait with a highly dimensional dataset.
  • dooglius 7y ago
    Rather than making armchair dismissals, consider looking at the paper and its citations which discuss the statistical methods used. From a cursory glance, it looks like they use a standard model of how genes affect traits, which uses O(N) parameters for N genes, so the "curse of dimensionality" would not apply.
    • superpermutat0r 7y ago
      When there's thousands of genes then it applies.