Bayes Factors
Abstract In a 1935 paper and in his book Theory of Probability, Jeffreys developed a methodology for quantifying the evidence in favor of a scientific theory. The centerpiece wa...
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Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies
Reconstructing phylogenies from intraspecific data (such as human mitochondrial DNA variation) is often a challenging task because of large sample sizes and small genetic distan...
Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome
Studies of the human microbiome have revealed that even healthy individuals differ remarkably in the microbes that occupy habitats such as the gut, skin and vagina. Much of this...
Empagliflozin, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes
Patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk for cardiovascular events who received empagliflozin, as compared with placebo, had a lower rate of the primary composite cardiovascul...
Estimation of the number of nucleotide substitutions in the control region of mitochondrial DNA in humans and chimpanzees.
Examining the pattern of nucleotide substitution for the control region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in humans and chimpanzees, we developed a new mathematical method for estima...
Toxicity and response criteria of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
STANDARD CRITERIA FOR TOXICITY and for response to treatment are important prerequisites to the conduct of cancer trials. The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group criteria for tox...
Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have become increasingly important in health care. Clinicians read them to keep up to date with their field,1,2 and they are often used as a...
The weirdest people in the world?
Abstract Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educa...
ON THE PRICING OF CORPORATE DEBT: THE RISK STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES*
The value of a particular issue of corporate debt depends essentially on three items: (1) the required rate of return on riskless (in terms of default) debt (e.g., government bo...
Greengenes, a Chimera-Checked 16S rRNA Gene Database and Workbench Compatible with ARB
ABSTRACT A 16S rRNA gene database ( http://greengenes.lbl.gov ) addresses limitations of public repositories by providing chimera screening, standard alignment, and taxonomic cl...
The Problem of Social Cost
This paper is concerned with those actions of business firms which have harmful effects on others. The standard example is that of a factory the smoke from which has harmful eff...
The Human Genome Browser at UCSC
As vertebrate genome sequences near completion and research refocuses to their analysis, the issue of effective genome annotation display becomes critical. A mature web tool for...