JOB REMINDER: Statistical Bioinformatics post, Newcastle, UK

2001-01-08 Thread D J Wilkinson
REMINDER: CLOSING DATE, FRIDAY 12TH JANUARY Departments of Statistics and Gerontology NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, UK POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION IN STATISTICAL BIOINFORMATICS A three year post-doctoral position is available to work on an exciting problem at the interface between molecular

Re: standard deviation from frequency table

2001-01-08 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Chris Chiu wrote: Dear friends: Does anyone know / remember how to obtain the standard deviation of a set of numbers given only a frequency table? e.g., xf(x) 00.2 10.3 20.2 30.2 40.1 (0) This is not a frequency table, it's a relative frequency

Re: OT: psychological test for recruitment in Statistics

2001-01-08 Thread Rich Ulrich
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:44:13 +, "P.G.Hamer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Ulrich wrote: Computers do better than experts in making medical diagnoses when the correct answer has to be from a narrow set. I think that some of the early systems also were better than humans at

Re: fla election stats

2001-01-08 Thread Leo G Simonetta
On 5 Jan 2001 08:15:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) wrote: It would be valuable to record all of the issues of interest to Statisticians. Here's a quick list off the top of my head. I'm not looking to re-open these issues for debate. I just want to summarize what I think were

Smoothing, F-test, and Degrees of Freedom

2001-01-08 Thread Jimc10
I am using non-linear regression to fit electophysiological data (current vs t) to exponential equations. I am using an F-test on the residual sum of squares to determine how many components are required. A typical trace will have several thousand points. Question: If I use an adjacent average