Cutting through the numbers

Cutting through yesterday's understanding.

Iam honored to be included among the recipients of this award, although I find this a bit awkward. I can think of a number of individuals more worthy. In 1993 I accepted a position as a nursing home physician within the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, which included work as the physician for a seven-bed inpatient hospice unit. This unit, established in 1979 was one of the earliest of its kind ...

Cutting through the complexity of cell collectives.

Via strength in numbers, groups of cells can influence their environments in ways that individual cells cannot. Large-scale structural patterns and collective functions underpinning virulence, tumour growth and bacterial biofilm formation are emergent properties of coupled physical and biological processes within cell groups. Owing to the abundance of factors influencing cell group behaviour, d...

Cutting the Dendrogram through Permutation Tests

This paper introduces an innovative approach for detecting a suboptimal partition starting from the dendrogram produced by a hierarchical clustering techinique. The approach exploits permutation tests and it can be used regardless of the agglomeration method and distance measure used in the classification process because it relies on the same criteria used for producing it. Moreover, the propos...

Generating Random Numbers from a Unimodal Density by Cutting Corners

The cutting corners algorithm can be used to generate random numbers from any unimodal density which is speciied only as a computer subroutine. This allows for a single program that can generate samples from Normal, Exponential, Gamma, Cauchy,. .. , and almost any of your favorite density with any parameters. Despite the extremely open nature of the problem, the algorithm proposed is extremely ...

The Quantified Self Self - knowledge Through Numbers ?