Interpreting experiments on egg production—Statistical considerations

Special considerations in interpreting liver function tests.

A number of pitfalls can be encountered in the interpretation of common blood liver function tests. These tests can be normal in patients with chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis. The normal range for aminotransferase levels is slightly higher in males, nonwhites and obese persons. Severe alcoholic hepatitis is sometimes confused with cholecystitis or cholangitis. Conversely, patients who present so...

You Can’t Get There from Here: On Interpreting Learning Experiments

Artificial language learning experiments provide a unique opportunity to observe learning under controlled conditions. We cannot, however, observe what learning strategy participants use; we can only carefully design the language and observe the response. This poses an inference problem that I name "the poverty of the experiment." I use computational learning models to address this inference pr...

Interpreting signals from astrophysical transient experiments.

Time-domain astronomy has come of age with astronomers now able to monitor the sky at high cadence, both across the electromagnetic spectrum and using neutrinos and gravitational waves. The advent of new observing facilities permits new science, but the ever-increasing throughput of facilities demands efficient communication of coincident detections and better subsequent coordination among the ...

Interpreting data from WIMP direct detection experiments

Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) direct detection experiments are closing in on the region of parameter space where relic neutralinos may constitute the galactic halo dark matter. We discuss two issues in the interpretation of data, in particular the calculation of exclusion limits, from these experiments. Firstly we show that the technique that has been used for calculating exclusion...

Considerations in designing and interpreting prevalence studies for Behçet syndrome.