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From: "giannis " <fanzio12@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: small data set
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 18:25:04 +0000 (UTC)
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Hello,

thank you for your reply,
the fact is that I am doing a medical application so my data
have medical nature.
it would be very interesting if I could produce "new" data
from the old ones and test the results.
it would be a huge help if you could help me with this in
any way.

regards

 


roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in
message <fvcvrm$i5n$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> In article <fvcapd$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