MAKING MENTORING MEANINGFUL

Making monitoring meaningful

Conservation monitoring in Australia has assumed increasing importance in recent years, as societal pressure to actively manage environmental problems has risen. More resources than ever before are being channelled to the task of documenting environmental change.Yet the field remains crippled by a pervasive lack of rigour in analysing, reporting and responding to the results of data collected. ...

President's page: making imaging meaningful.

Making meaningful inferences about magnitudes.

A study of a sample provides only an estimate of the true (population) value of an outcome statistic. A report of the study therefore usually includes an inference about the true value. Traditionally, a researcher makes an inference by declaring the value of the statistic statistically significant or nonsignificant on the basis of a P value derived from a null-hypothesis test. This approach is ...

Making it personal; mentoring future family docs.

MetaboAnalyst 3.0—making metabolomics more meaningful

MetaboAnalyst (www.metaboanalyst.ca) is a web server designed to permit comprehensive metabolomic data analysis, visualization and interpretation. It supports a wide range of complex statistical calculations and high quality graphical rendering functions that require significant computational resources. First introduced in 2009, MetaboAnalyst has experienced more than a 50X growth in user traff...