The genetic relatedness between individuals because of their recent common ancestry is now routinely estimated from marker genotype data in molecular ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Increasing sample sizes in genetic studies, regardless of the depth of phenotyping, may help better estimate ...

Conflicting findings are often reported in microbiome association studies, which could be due to insufficient sample sizes and numerous confounders. A new study, utilizing two large-scale human ...

The sisterhood method is an indirect method of estimating maternal mortality that has, in comparison with conventional direct methods, the dual advantages of ease of use in the field and smaller ...

Figure: Plot of sample sizes at which the variance of the total number of attributes is the maximum. (IMAGE) Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Caption Estimating the variance of the ...

While previous sections of this report have focused on the kinds of systematic biases that may be the largest worry when it comes to public opinion polls, the variance (or precision) of estimates is ...

To compensate for a power analysis based on a poor estimate of variance, internal pilot designs use some fraction of the planned observations to reestimate error ...