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statistics

The science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation. The term is also applied to the data themselves and to the summarization of the data.


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Biology oriented math websites

Hi, I'm looking for some general help on maths used in first year biology (population models, statistics..) as I find my textbooks rather unhelpful. I know of websites explaining things like high school math in very helpful ways, but I've not been able to find anything ...

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by ornitorrinco
Fri May 24, 2013 6:30 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Biology oriented math websites
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Views: 40

Re: Gene targeting

... molecular biology recombinant DNA techniques microbial genetics molecular genetics plant physiology evolution instrumental chemical analysis statistics bioinformatics programming (for instance, C++ or a similar language) technical writing Likely you won't find courses with exactly these names ...

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by jonmoulton
Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:11 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Gene targeting
Replies: 14
Views: 2582

Where statistics of animal/plant growth could be found?

Dear colleagues, Could anybody advise any open resource (online statistical databases or something) which contains following data: -Mass dependences for mammals/fishes/vermigrade etc on time for the whole postnatal (prenatal) period. -Similar to the above dependences for botany (tree/plant/roots/lea...

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by DrStein
Tue Oct 09, 2012 12:45 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Where statistics of animal/plant growth could be found?
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Views: 444

Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all

... a result of true chaos existing in the singularity previous to those few milliseconds,because only in such a scenario the maths of probability and statistics fails.Not different laws, infact, no laws existed in the singularity chaos.The evidence that singularity chaos consisted of infinite consciousness ...

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by maunas
Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:58 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Are Creationists more right than evolutionists after all
Replies: 25
Views: 9380

Theories - Origin of Life

... testing psychic phenomena, you get far more negative results than positive. And of course, small numbers of positive results are unsurprising in statistics, with the exact proportion depending on what your p-values are. If dogs don’t empress you, try homing pigeons. Every possible experiment ...

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by AstraSequi
Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:09 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
Replies: 549
Views: 600365
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