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This sounds like voodoo statistics to me. Can you suggest any mathematical
basis for choosing an I/sig(I) limit of 2 rather than some other number?
funny you should say that, as the mathematical procedure does indeed involve
some voodoo-mathics ! it goes roughly as follows:
* take your age
* stick this number of pins into a doll made to look like the referee
of your paper
* multiply by the number of legs that a goat has (mode, not average !)
* slit the goat's throat and wash yourself in the blood
* utter some incantations (preferably in pidgin, although french will do)
* divide by the number of legs that a chicken has (mode again)
* bite the chicken's head off (but don't swallow it !)
* divide by your age
if you have some pins, a goat and a chicken handy, you can easily verify the
calculations for yourself ! (if you don't have any pins, you can probably skip
that step, although you might end up with a purple pine-apple growing out of
your head)
empirical DPI indices
speaking of voodoo ! has anyone ever shown that DPI correlates with anything
(say, information content) ?
I've recently seen some papers report "optical resolution".
Where does that number come from?
SFCHECK
--DooVooDoo
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Gerard J. Kleywegt
[Research Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]
Dept. of Cell & Molecular Biology University of Uppsala
Biomedical Centre Box 596
SE-751 24 Uppsala SWEDEN
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