Owen wrote: >> I'm not sure how many of us were there, but I found the talk quite >> thought provoking. >> >> An earlier version of her slides are here: >> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/ct-and-tc-long.pdf >> .. and a more narrative article is here: >> A recent one from bioinformatics is the need to find patterns in order to gain insight into how pathogens work. Instead of "make a hypothesis and test it", now the goal is to test every possible hypothesis, or at least many of them. So it's necessary to consider how a pattern in a large pool of tests might arise at random. The computational capability (together with microarray technology) drives the need for a new statistical tool.
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