The first article had no code and did not describe a formula that I could find 
which matched your code. The second article is behind a paywall. 

— 
David. 

Sent from my iPhone

> On Sep 3, 2022, at 3:39 PM, Bogdan Tanasa <tan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear Aaron, David, and everyone,
> 
> Thank you again for your comments on my question related to the confidence 
> intervals. I am sorry for the late reply. 
> 
> The definition of the 95 confidence intervals where our discussion originates 
> from has been proposed by the authors of these two articles (I am including 
> the links to the articles just to show that the formula has been published in 
> a methods article a while ago; the articles are in the field of biology 
> though, where not too many of you are part of, I guess). These authors have 
> written the scripts and they have made those available on github. I have 
> asked a while ago the authors why they have chosen this formula, however, I 
> have not received any reply. In any case, at this moment I will use the 
> mathematical formulas described in the articles :
> 
> https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(15)00304-4
> 
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41596-019-0218-7
> 
> Wishing everyone a good weekend, 
> 
> Bogdan
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 6:53 PM Ebert,Timothy Aaron <teb...@ufl.edu> wrote:
>> I have a general dislike of "analysis emergencies." I would like to see a 
>> data emergency wherein someone must cram 3 years of data collection into 18 
>> months so that they have time to work out the correct analysis. I am sure 
>> others would suggest working out how analyze the data before starting the 
>> experiment.
>> 
>> Our business office gives this advice to faculty members: An emergency on 
>> your part is not an emergency on our part. 
>> 
>> How about starting by answering the questions posted by the people you are 
>> hoping will help. Focus on David's middle paragraph. However, if you can 
>> re-code everything to work, then it would seem that you already know the 
>> answer and it might be simpler/faster to write the correct code.
>> 
>> You might spend some time looking for a scientific paper that uses that 
>> equation for the confidence interval and thereby get some context to explain 
>> why the equation is correct.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Bogdan Tanasa
>> Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2022 8:55 PM
>> To: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
>> Cc: r-help <r-help@r-project.org>
>> Subject: Re: [R] confidence intervals
>> 
>> [External Email]
>> 
>> Hi David,
>> 
>> Thank you for your comments, and feed-back message. I am very happy to learn 
>> from the experience of the people on R mailing list, and without any doubt, 
>> I am very thankful to you and to everyone for sharing their knowledge. I do 
>> apologize for any confusion that I have created unwillingly with my previous 
>> email.
>> 
>> About my previous email related to the confidence intervals: indeed I have 
>> posted the question with a detailed description on stackoverflow, and the 
>> link is listed below.
>> 
>> I have to admit that I have been in rush willing to have the suggestions of 
>> R-help members by Monday (if that would have been possible), as I have to 
>> make a decision at the beginning of this week on whether I need to re-code 
>> the shell script in R. I have a deadline on Wed. The script itself is less 
>> important per se, I have included it just to point our the origin of my 
>> question.
>> 
>> I do certainly respect the principles of online R-help community, and I 
>> would very much appreciate if I could have your advice on the following :
>> shall a "R code related emergency" arise, would it be acceptable to post the 
>> question on stackoverflow with the corresponding data tables and detailed 
>> code, and to refer the posting on R-help mailing list ?
>> 
>> If it is acceptable at least for a single email, and if you do not mind, I 
>> could mention the link to stackoverflow, inviting our members to read it, 
>> shall they be comfortable with this topic.
>> 
>> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F73507697%2Fconfidence-intervals-of-a-biological-assay%3Fnoredirect%3D1%23comment129816241_73507697&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ctebert%40ufl.edu%7C0ba5d535471b46c05ec508da89592c20%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C637973313343894313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8sF7j4OCgH12qx4d8NCiw1%2FDbPa6nrui27S9C3ZNuL0%3D&amp;reserved=0
>> 
>> Thanks a lot, have  a good week !
>> 
>> ~ Bogdan
>> 
>> https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fquestions%2F73507697%2Fconfidence-intervals-of-a-biological-assay%3Fnoredirect%3D1%23comment129816241_73507697&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ctebert%40ufl.edu%7C0ba5d535471b46c05ec508da89592c20%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C637973313343894313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=8sF7j4OCgH12qx4d8NCiw1%2FDbPa6nrui27S9C3ZNuL0%3D&amp;reserved=0
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>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2022, 6:52 PM David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > You cross-posted this to StackOverflow and did not say so.  ... and 
>> > you posted in HTML Bad dog squared. I cast one of the close votes on 
>> > SO, but here I can only say ... READ the Posting Guide.
>> >
>> > You also give no citation other than someone's Github files with 
>> > minimal comments in that material. You should indicate whether this 
>> > code has any solid support. Why do you think this code is something to 
>> > depend upon?
>> >
>> > After all, you been posting questions on R-help for several months.
>> > Don't you think you should make a good faith effort to understand the 
>> > principles underlying this resource?
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > David.
>> >
>> > On 8/26/22 17:55, Bogdan Tanasa wrote:
>> > > Dear all,
>> > >
>> > > Although I know that it is not a statistics mailing list, given my 
>> > > work
>> > on
>> > > ICeChIP
>> > >
>> > >
>> > https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgith
>> > ub.com%2Fshah-rohan%2Ficechip%2Fblob%2Fmaster%2FScripts%2FcomputeHMDan
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>> > >
>> > > I would appreciate to have the answer to a question :
>> > >
>> > > given two variables a and b (a and b can have 1000 paired-values) 
>> > > and a calibration number "cal",
>> > >
>> > > why the 95 confidence interval has been calculated as such for each 
>> > > value
>> > > a(i) and b(i) :
>> > >
>> > > 100 / cal * sqrt (( a/ (b^2) + (a^2) / (b ^3)) * 1.96
>> > >
>> > > Thank you,
>> > >
>> > > Bogdan
>> > >
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