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 ...

Major research questions in the field of social stratification and mobility deal with similarities and differences in the patterns of social mobility in space and time. Answers are typically given by ...

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 ...