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Subject: Re: small data set
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:49:42 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <fvcapd$oc8$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
John D'Errico <woodchips@rochester.rr.com> wrote:

>The fact is, you only have 25 data points.

>No matter how hard you squeeze that rock,
>the only blood you will get from the rock
>will be that amount you leave behind from
>your own hands.

>Only pharmaceutical companies know the
>secret methodologies used to manufacture
>information where none actually exists.

Aye. We're getting amazingly good here at manufacturering new
-data- from old, but manufacturing new -information- is still
eluding us.

Though much more often, the problem here is in manufacturing useful
information from *too much* data.
-- 
  "If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no
  doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no
  inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius."
                                              -- Walter Savage Landor