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Statistics:
Flipping Alleles
John Hawks thinks my disc flipping example is related to popgen.Posted on June 1, 2007 8:00 AM • 1 Comments
Usually Choose Same
What if the probability heads differs between two discs or coins?Posted on May 31, 2007 8:00 AM • 0 Comments
Always Choose "Same"
On flipping discs before a game of ultimate.Posted on May 30, 2007 8:00 AM • 4 Comments
Math for Biologists
What math courses should an undergraduate biology major take?Posted on May 17, 2007 1:15 PM • 13 Comments
Redefining the Binomial
y/n versus (y+1)/(n+2)Posted on May 16, 2007 4:15 PM • 2 Comments
I Got Your Distribution Right Here
How much variation in genome size do we see in birds?Posted on March 19, 2007 9:00 AM • 7 Comments
Mining for Statistical Significance
A step by step guide to finding statistically significant results.Posted on January 10, 2007 4:30 PM • 3 Comments
Silent Mutations Continue to Speak Up
A publication in 1987 predicted a result that was published in December of 2006. What are some of the future research directions that we can take given these findings?Posted on January 3, 2007 10:00 AM • 2 Comments
Chance, Stochasticity, Probability and Evolution
Before we can determine the role of chance in evolution, we must define what we mean by chance.Posted on December 26, 2006 1:00 PM • 8 Comments
Adaptive Evolution in Genomes
Adam Eyre-Walker has published a review of adaptive evolution in a few well studied systems: Drosophila, humans, viruses, Arabidopsis, etc. These organisms have been the subject of many studies that used DNA polymorphism, DNA divergence, or a combination of the...Posted on September 18, 2006 2:00 PM • 2 Comments
Is Your City a Sports Haven or Sports Hell?
It's Saturday on the second weekend of the college football season. Tomorrow (Sunday) marks the opening of the NFL season (okay, the season really kicked off Thursday night). Also, we're hitting the home stretch of the major league baseball season,...Posted on September 9, 2006 12:00 PM • 1 Comments
Creationist Probability
ABC News has an article by mathematician John Allen Paulos on how creationists misuse probability in their anti-science arguments. This article is inspired by the Science article on public acceptance of evolution. I especially like how he distinguishes between a...Posted on September 6, 2006 8:00 AM • 0 Comments
Variance in Laboratory Experiments
Given the expected frequency of a certain outcome of a replicate in an experiment, we can estimate the expected variance around that mean (either by deriving it or performing simulations). I have heard that laboratory experiments tend to have greater...Posted on August 15, 2006 12:30 PM • 0 Comments
Joe Morgan the Creationist
Joe Morgan is a Hall of Fame baseball player and a former member of the Cincinnati's Big Red Machine. He is also a commentator for ESPN and a strong opponent of all the new fangled baseball statistics. Anyone who has...Posted on July 18, 2006 9:00 AM • 2 Comments
Rejecting the Neutral Model
Last September, Bruce Lahn and colleagues published a couple of papers on the evolution of two genes responsible for brain development in humans (ASPM and Microcephalin). A group led by Sally Otto published a criticism of the analysis performed by...Posted on July 17, 2006 9:00 AM • 0 Comments
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