Yes! - the critical piece of information that we're missing is the
proportion of *all* structures that come from SG centres.  Only
knowing that can we do any serious statistics ...

-- Ian

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Frank von Delft
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>  b) very large Rmerge values:
>>
>>      Rmerge  Rwork  Rfree  Rfree-Rwork Resolution
>>     ---------------------------------------------
>>      0.9990 0.1815 0.2086    0.0271     1.80<<<  SG center, unpublished
>>      0.8700 0.1708 0.2270    0.0562     1.96<<<  unpublished
>>      0.7700 0.1870 0.2297    0.0428     1.56
>>      0.7600 0.2380 0.2680    0.0300     2.50<<<  SG center, unpublished
>>      0.7000 0.1700 0.2253    0.0553     1.71
>>      0.6400 0.2179 0.2715    0.0536     2.75<<<  SG center, unpublished
>>
>> The most disturbing to me is that of those with very large overall
>> Rmerge values, 3 come from structural genomics centers.
>
> Is that less or more disturbing than that the other 50% come from not-SG
> centers?
>
> Of course, the authors themselves may be willing to help correct the obvious
> typos -- which will presumably disappear forever once we can finally upload
> log files upon deposition (coming soon, I'm told).
>
> On an unrelated note, it's reassuring to see sound statistical principles --
> averages, large N, avoidance of small number-anecdotes, and such rot --
> continue not to be abandoned in the politics of science funding, he said
> airily.
>
> phx
>

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