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Re:The two cultures of mathematics and biology by bjelkeman-again on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:00PM (#8820587)
I agree that more advanced statistical methods would be useful. A surprising number of scientists have poor knowledge about statistics whilst being dependent on it to prove their research.
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Re:The two cultures of mathematics and biology by Fomite on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:27PM (#8820706)
If anyone is depending on statistics to "prove" anything, they're in trouble.
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Re:The two cultures of mathematics and biology by bjelkeman-again on Saturday January 03, 2015 @11:37AM (#8831133)
How do you prove that a medicine is safe and effective if not through large scale studies, which you then use statistics to show whether your hypotesus was correct or not?
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Re:The two cultures of mathematics and biology by wolfgke on Thursday January 01, 2015 @10:08AM (#8823108)
With statistics I can definitely prove that something holds with a confidence, of, say 0,95, under the model assumptions [...].
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Re:The two cultures of mathematics and biology by eli_gottlieb on Friday January 02, 2015 @08:59AM (#8826735)
If you mistake the p-value on a frequentist hypothesis test for a Bayesian posterior probability, you've already messed up.
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Re:The two cultures of mathematics and biology by marktangotango on Thursday January 01, 2015 @09:23AM (#8822978)
Touche, 95% of people who prove things on the internet use statistics.
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