Vocabulary

collateral damage

oil spill

Bayes factor

Bayesian probability

Bayesian inference; Bayesian estimation

outlier

box-and-whisker plot; box-and-whisker diagram; box plot; boxplot

statistical dispersion; statistical variability

flat sedge hat; bamboo hat

shallow hat with a round top (looking like a half manjū)

mixed effects

polynomial regression

multiple regression analysis

Z chromosome

W chromosome

social network

political action committee; PAC

conservation genetics

conservation biology

molecular ecology

quantitative polymerase chain reaction; quantitative PCR; qPCR

real-time polymerase chain reaction; real-time PCR

reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; RT-PCR

DNA sequencing

comparative genomics

introgression

transgenesis; transgenics; gene transfer

genetic determinism

biological determinism

frequency-dependent selection

mark-and-recapture method

experimental design; design of experiments

sparse matrix

principal diagonal; main diagonal

triangular matrix

upper triangular matrix

lower triangular matrix

linearity

vector analysis; vector calculus

maternal effect