The clinical relevance: The assessment of the antigenicity of an injectable molecule for the human organism requires human patient sera due to the inherent variability of antibodies from person to person, and the inherent variation of bioactivity of antibodies within a single individual. Antibodies produced experimentally in animals give little information with regard to clinical effects of the...

x I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me. It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life-the priceless moments that will never come back to him again-being wasted in mere brutish sleep. – – Jerome K. Jerome, Three men in a boat Duality is a transformation that maps lines and points into points and lines...

Knowledge of the normal dimensions of the uterus is important for evaluating the health status of women and for forecasting the risk of developing some of the many diseases seen by gynaecologists and obstetricians. Ultrasonography is particularly suited to the diagnostic investigation of uterine size because it limits the patient’s exposure to ionizing radiation, permits multi-sectional scannin...

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Theorem 26.1.2 (Chebychev inequality) Let X be a random variable with μx = E[X] and σx be the standard deviation of X. That is σX = E [ (X − μx) ] . Then, Pr [|X − μX | ≥ tσX] ≤ 1 t2 . Proof: Note that Pr [|X − μX | ≥ tσX] = Pr[(X − μX) ≥ t2σ2X] . Set Y = (X − μX). Clearly, E [ Y ] = σX. Now, apply Markov inequality to Y . This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerci...