The American Statistician strives to publish articles of general interest to the statistical profession on topics that are important for a broad group of statisticians, and ordinarily not highly ...

Linear mixed models are increasingly used for the analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of binary phenotypes because they can efficiently and robustly account for population ...

Although Gray has argued that the index of social distance (v) reflects `preference factors free of opportunity factors', that it `controls the effects of size', both its statistical derivation and ...