Nepalese Sherpas have a physiology that uses oxygen more efficiently than those used to the atmosphere at sea level. The biochemical tests on the fresh muscle showed that the Sherpas’ tissue was able to make much better use of oxygen by limiting the amount of body fat burned (i.e. low levels of fatty acid oxidation)…
The generalized (extreme Studentized deviate) ESD test (Rosner 1983) is used to detect one or more outliers in a univariate data set that follows an approximately normal distribution. The generalized ESD test can be used to answer the following question: How many outliers does the data set contain? I have released an R implementation of…
Originally posted on RStudio Blog:
We’ve added a new cheatsheet to our collection. Data Visualization with ggplot2 describes how to build a plot with ggplot2 and the grammar of graphics. You will find helpful reminders of how to use: geoms stats scales coordinate systems facets position adjustments legends, and themes The cheatsheet also documents tips…
Originally posted on Mandy Mejia:
Making plots is a necessary and useful task for anyone who works with data. While making the standard plots is a pretty straightforward task in most statistical programming languagues, including R, when it comes to using R‘s base graphics to make custom plots (the plots you actually want to make)…
The following blog was posted as a comment (by Vikool Shrestha (Hada)) to one of my previous blogs on the relevant topic. The insight on the story is very interesting. However I cannot ascertain any credibility to the story presented below as I’m not an expert in the history/origin of any ethnic groups. I’m not…
Following are the video lectures on Machine Learning (Undergraduate and Graduate level) by Dr. Nando de Freitas (University of British Columbia)
A lot of genomic knowledge are often curated in the form of genesets where a combination of genes are involved in certain biological process/function/pathway. In other words, a pathway is often enriched with different combination of genes. Similarly this can also be related to patient-genesets data structure. This can be thought of as a bipartite…
8 lecture series on the theme “Conservation Biology and Wildlife Genetics in Nepal” was held at Kathmandu University. The lecture series was given by Prof Dr Jacques Van Alphen (University of Amsterdam) and Dr Laura Bertola (Leiden University) and was jointly organized by Himalayan Tiger Foundations and Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal (CMDN). (24-25 Nov…
After a long hiatus, I’m back again in the blogging world. The blog presented below is a part of a practice writing in a workshop aimed to communicate the research to public sphere that I attended today at my university. Cancer is a complex disease where we are battling against the Mother Nature’s rule of…
In early January 2010, a news covered by Kantipur Television News struck my mind. The then Minister for Science & Technology of Nepal had pleaded the cabinet to assign him some work as he was apparently “jobless” even after holding the top-notch post in the science & technology field. You could just make a rough…
One evening, few years back, my grandpa passed down a legacy to me and my cousins – the story of our ancestors. I belong to a Newar community which is one among the indigenous people of Kathmandu Valley. Newars have been living in Kathmandu valley from the prehistoric times. As per my grandpa, our ancestors…
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