Genomic causation....or not
By Ken Weiss and Anne Buchanan T he Big Story in the latest Nature ("A radical revision of human genetics: Why many ‘deadly’ gene mut...
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FAS - Fishy Association Studies
cihara kenji
On Saturday, July 19, 1879, the brilliant opera composer, R...
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The statistics of Promissory Science. Part I: Making non-sense with statistical methods
cihara kenji
S tatistics is a form of mathematics, a way devised by humans for representing abstract relationships. Mathematics comprises axiomatic sys...
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"The Blizzard of 2016" and predictability: Part III: When is a health prediction 'precise' enough?
cihara kenji
W e've discussed the use of data and models to predict the weather in the last few days ( here and here ). We've lauded the succes...
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"The Blizzard of 2016" and predictability: Part II: When is a prediction a good one? When is it good enough?
cihara kenji
W eather forecasts require the prediction of many different parameter values. These include temperature, wind at the ground and aloft (wind...
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