In case you're wondering about the company name — I know I was — it actually comes from a German statistical measurement, kind of a data scientist in-joke.
In case you're wondering about the company name — I know I was — it actually comes from a German statistical measurement, kind of a data scientist in-joke.
In NK landscapes, K is the parameter that tunes the extent of ruggedness, and it is possible to seek landscapes whose ruggedness can be approximated by a particular value of K, since one of the attractions of NK is that they can reproduce (in a statistical sense) any kind of landscape.
Scientists in Germany have found that some bats can analyze a statistical property of this kind of acoustic echo.
Were Tophat to yield meaningful alignment quality scores, a statistical approach of the kind hinted at above may perform similarly to the k-mer based approach.
That those decisions are made by a large body does give them a kind of statistical weight, but they are also open to unresolvable dispute.
Another radical idea, realized by a startup, was to create chips that work with probabilities, not 1s and 0s, an approach that could speed cryptography and other statistical calculations (A New Kind of Microchip).
Professor Fagan suggested we run a different kind of statistical model that was more commonly used in criminology studies, and also consider the borough where an arrest took place.
Latent factors are what shakes out when you do a particular kind of statistical analysis, called a factor analysis, on a set of data, looking for the hidden, unseen variables that cause the variation in all the different variables you're examining.
I earned a degree in statistics — the art of using data to infer truths about the world — and this always struck me as a rudimentary kind of statistical model.
