Category Archives: cancer research

Senn’s `… never having to say you are certain’ guest post from Mayo’s blog

Posted on 22 January 2018 by ecoquant

via S. Senn: Being a statistician means never having to say you are certain (Guest Post) See also: E. Cai’s blog post “Applied Statistics Lesson of the Day – The Matched Pairs Experimental Design”, from February 2014 A. Deaton, N. … Continue reading →

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Andy Skuce

Posted on 22 September 2017 by ecoquant

Source: Andy Skuce Exit, Pursued by a Crab, from Critical Angle.

Posted in Anthropocene, cancer research, climate change, climate disruption, denial, global blinding, global warming, Humans have a lot to answer for, Hyper Anthropocene, leaving fossil fuels in the ground, science denier, science education, Skeptical Science, tragedy of the horizon | Leave a comment

On differential localization of tumors using relative concentrations of ctDNA. Part 2.

Posted on 26 October 2015 by ecoquant

Part 1 of this series introduced the idea of ctDNA and its use for detecting cancers or their resurgence, and proposed a scheme whereby relative concentrations of ctDNA at two or more sites after controlled disturbance might be used to … Continue reading →

Posted in Bayes, Bayesian, Bayesian inversion, cancer research, ctDNA, differential equations, diffusion, diffusion processes, engineering, linear algebra | 1 Comment

The 2015 edition of the Jimmy Fund Walk, Team Andrew Weinberg

Posted on 12 September 2015 by ecoquant

Once again I am participating in Dana-Farber Jimmy Fund Walk with Team Andrew Weinberg. This year I am walking longer, starting from Wellesley College, and meeting up with James and the rest of Team Andrew Weinberg at Boston College. The … Continue reading →

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