Statistica applicata alla
sperimentazione scientifica (edizione 2010)
Coordinatore: Prof. Luigi Salmaso
(luigi.salmaso@unipd.it)
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"You know we had to come here -because we'd
something to discuss..." The rock song performed by Señor
Gómez for ISNI2008 is on release. Play it loud at http://www.isni2008.com/includes/mp3.html
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Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information? (from T.S. Eliot). Probably
you do not know the first two answers, but a statistician can guess the third
... is it perhaps, in the error term of the model?
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Everybody knows that something is impossible to
realize till someone inexperienced comes and invents it. (A. Einstein)
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The best time to
contact a statistician for statistical consulting is in the planning
phase of the study. A statistician
can help to avert a disaster much more easily than he can help to recover from
one!
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On the innate superiority of rabbits over
wolves:
A rabbit is happily grazing
one day when it is ambushed by a wolf. “Please don’t eat me Mr Wolf,” pleads
the rabbit, “I haven’t completed my Ph.D.!”
The wolf spits out the
rabbit and laughs until he almost chokes. “Yeah right! A rabbit? Doing a Ph.D.?
What about? Carrots? Duracell batteries? I just gotta
hear this one!”
The rabbit clears its
throat and intones: “On the innate superiority of rabbits over
wolves.” “That’s a crock for a start,” scoffs the wolf.
“But I can prove it,” says
the rabbit. “Come to my hole and I’ll show you my results, and if you
still don’t believe me, then you can eat me. Deal?”
“Sure. Can I have fries
with that?” says the wolf, following the rabbit down the hole.
But only the rabbit comes
out.
Months later the rabbit is
grazing contentedly again when it meets another rabbit. “How’s tricks?”
asks the friend.
“Wonderful,” says our hero,
“I’ve just submitted my Ph.D. dissertation.”
“Congratulations! What’s it
called?”
“It’s called ‘On the innate
superiority of rabbits over wolves’.”
“Unbelievable — I mean,
literally. Are you sure?”
“Yes, I thought it was
crazy at first too. But I’ve tested the model rigorously and that’s the
result I get.”
“Wow…”
“Look, if you don’t believe
me, why not come to my hole and I can show you the results?”
“Of course, I’d love to!”
So the two rabbits scurry
down the burrow. In the first chamber is a workstation, covered with and
surrounded by piles of books, papers, printouts and half-eaten
carrots. In the second
chamber are boxes and boxes of wolf bones, all catalogued and annotated. And in
the final chamber, in a rocking chair, is a large and very satisfied looking
bear.
Moral: do your Ph.D. on any
subject you like, provided you have a good supervisor.
Posted on the Nature
Network.
(last update 16_03_2010)