Preliminary and Incomplete Please do not quote * We are grateful to Peter Grundy for valuable research assistance.

Dataset taken from Somel et al. 2012: (check publication for details) • 3 human + 3 chimp brain transcriptome data • Illumina RNA-Seq, paired-end 76bp • Reads mapped to human and chimp genome and reads counted for each transcript Download the following data files into a directory of your choice (e.g. data): • Human: http://www.nowick-lab.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/segemehl.hg19.readCount.t...

Riassunto: In un contesto di regressione, la dicotomizzazione di una variabile risposta continua è solitamente dettata dall’esigenza di ottenere una misura del rapporto di quote (odds ratio) che ne quantifichi l’associazione con uno o più fattori di rischio. Prendendo spunto da un lavoro recentemente pubblicato, in questo articolo si esplora la possibilità di ottenere stime del rapporto di quot...

Quotes When you write a paper related to literature, history, current events, and many other fields, direct quotes are essential to fully discuss the subject. In science, there is very rarely any call for a direct quote. On student papers, there is no reason at all to include direct quotes, except in the case when the student doesn't understand the concept and uses the quote to avoid having to ...

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