"Unfortunately, we have been missing discoveries all along because we didn't have the ability to see if a hunch has statistical merit.
"There are famous high-energy-physics experiments that missed discoveries because they weren't writing them to tape," he told me.
The alternative is increased potential for missed discoveries, miscommunications, and, at worst, creating a bias towards the research that is easiest to display.
We note that a large number of the missed discoveries for the Jaccard filter at low levels of expression correspond to genes with zero read counts in one condition and a small number of read counts in the other; for example, in the Sultan data, 50.3% of the 449 discoveries among genes with mean normalized read counts <10 had zero read counts in one of the two conditions.
But for older viewers, who may be sorely missing the Discovery Channel's bellwether 11-part nature series, "Planet Earth," which ended on April 24, Mr. Abraham's commendable enthusiasm for his subject is not enough to save this episode of "Nature" from its rote script, score, soundtrack and cinematography.
Outside references aren't fully necessary to appreciate the evening on its own testosterone-charged terms, as 10 overprivileged swells gather to feast themselves on a "ten-bird" dinner in which — uh oh! — one of the requisite fowl is revealed to have gone missing, a discovery that only amplifies the celebrants' wish for chaos.
When SUs sense the PU band, then missing the discovery of the vacant PU channels, such as due to inefficient sensing mechanism, would tantamount to missed opportunity.
The near-miss discovery of the fungal meningitis outbreak raises questions about other outbreaks that possibly were not detected.
In all likelihood, traditional ideas of measurement were still too powerful in his way of thinking, and thus he missed the discovery of the concept of cardinality.
