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Dany Adams

Dany Adams has written 24 posts for Lab Math

Kill My Book

By ⋅ August 25, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Flashy new techniques get a lot of press, sometimes deservedly so:  technical breakthroughs often lead to breakthroughs in understanding as well.  But in the struggle for game-changing insights and the fame (funding) they bring, the tried, and more importantly true, gets lost in the shuffle.  The person who has to teach the intro class is pitied, [...]

Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz Calculator Review

By ⋅ June 23, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

Recommended: http://www.physiologyweb.com/calculators/ghk_equation_calculator.html

Bayes explained very nicely

By ⋅ January 21, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

http://meandering-through-mathematics.blogspot.com/2011/05/bayesian-theory.html I found this link to be a very helpful description of Bayes’ theorem.    

Great Stats Blog Site

By ⋅ January 16, 2014 ⋅ Post a comment

A recent post on the Simply Statistics blog takes on a sort-of-hot topic in statistics: what errors actually matter, and how are they best quantified and reported when you are using statistics to infer something about a population.  Best, in this case, means best at making accurate predictions.  The two camps are the Frequentists and the [...]

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Birth of the Blog

This blog, like the book Lab Math from which it springs (incompletely formed), will be about numbers. I will endeavor to:

1. showcase the basic and the practical, not the challenging or even the advanced;

2.. provide straightforward guidance for the unenthusiastic (“just do it exactly this way”);

3.. provide refreshers for those needing refreshment (whether they know it or not.)