Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover Effects, Second Version

Designing Experiments to Measure Spillover

‘‘Designing Lagrangian experiments to measure regional-scale trace gas fluxes’’

[1] Knowledge of trace gas fluxes at the land surface is essential for understanding the impact of human activities on the composition and radiative balance of the atmosphere. An ability to derive fluxes at the regional scale (on the order of 10–10 km), at the scale of ecosystems and political borders, is crucial for policy and management responses. Lagrangian (‘‘air mass-following’’) aircraft ...

Detecting Spillover Effects: Design and Analysis of Multilevel Experiments

Design of Randomized Experiments to Measure Social Interaction Effects

We consider the use of randomized experiments to measure social interaction effects. Randomization at two levels—across groups and within groups—can resolve an omitted variables problem for a linear-in-means model of endogenous social interactions. We examine how the randomization should be carried out to estimate the coefficients of interest most precisely, and calculate the optimal treatment ...

Scotty: a web tool for designing RNA-Seq experiments to measure differential gene expression

MOTIVATION A common question arises at the beginning of every experiment where RNA-Seq is used to detect differential gene expression between two conditions: How many reads should we sequence? RESULTS Scotty is an interactive web-based application that assists biologists to design an experiment with an appropriate sample size and read depth to satisfy the user-defined experimental objectives....