Susan Holmes: How statistics are reshaping our understanding of biology
The Future of Everything
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The Joys of Statistical Analysis
Susan Holmes: We're not yet, I work in an area where we don't have very many samples or many subjects. So they say, oh, well, if you could use this interaction, which is known, and could we sort of map that onto what we're seeing? It's combining information. But the human part, I think, is really important. Russ Altman: How do you move from like, scientist X liked this to maybe we have a general-purpose tool for lots of other uses? Susan Holmes: And it's quite complicated but we try to make it so it's just a generalization of things that they've already seen.
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