The American Statistical Association of which I am a longtime member issued an important statement today which will hopefully move statistical practice in engineering and especially in the sciences away from the misleading practice of using p - values and hypothesis tests. (667-per-cm.net)
There is extensive evidence of statistical associations between family discord / maladaptation and antisocial behaviour in the children, but questions remain on the extent to which the psychopathological risks are genetically or environmentally mediated. (cambridge.org)
So far, «genome - wide association studies» have identified variant DNA sequences showing statistical association with these and other complex diseases, but demonstrating a mechanistic role for these variants has proven elusive. (slu.edu)