... across genetic data sets, across different types of genetic studies and/or across distinct experimental modalities. In previous papers in this journal and elsewhere, my colleagues and I have argued that geneticists ought to care about the scale on which statistical evidence is measured, and we have...

... Statistical evidence National Institutes of Health (NIH) 10.13039/100000002 Hum Hered 2011;72:276 288 DOI: 10.1159/000330634 Published online: December 23, 2011 KELVIN: A Software Package for Rigorous Measurement of Statistical Evidence in Human Genetics Veronica J. Vieland a, b Yungui Huang...

...Veronica J. Vieland In human genetics, we measure the strength of statistical evidence using a variety of maximized likelihood ratios, LODs, and empirical p values. I argue here that these statistics have highly undesirable properties as evidence measures when applied to complex disorders. Among...