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250 Astro Super Earths Problem Set 2 Questions to Ponder While Reading Problem 1. Eureka Consider a rectangular block of area A, thickness t, and density . It oats, face down on its area A, in a medium of constant incompressible density m > . A constant gravitational eld points downward. Archimedes principle states that a buoyant object oating in a uid medium sinks to a depth such that it displaces a...
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250 Astro Super Earths Problem Set 2 Questions to Ponder While Reading
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Berkeley - SEMINARS - 2005
Astro 250 Super Earths Problem Set 7 Questions to Ponder While ReadingProblem 1. Sonic Point for Isothermal Wind(a) For an isothermal wind, T is constant and there is no need to solve an energy equation. From equations (1) and (2) from Kasting a
Berkeley - SEMINARS - 2005
Astro 250 Super Earths Problem Set 4 Questions to Ponder While ReadingProblem 1. OligarchyWrite down 1 sentence stating what oligarchy is.Problem 2. End of OligarchyOligarchy ends when the velocity instability (11.2) occurs. The oligarchs (pr
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Economics 131 Section Notes GSI: David AlbouyMicroeconomics Review in a Two Good WorldNote: These notes are not meant to be a substitute for attending section. It may in fact be dicult to understand these notes without attending section, where thi
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Data Analysis Toolkit #4: Confidence IntervalsPage 1The confidence interval of any uncertain quantity x is the range that x is expected to occupy with a specified confidence. Anything that is uncertain can have a confidence interval. Confidence i
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Data Analysis Toolkit #2: Quantifying Data Distributions using Descriptive StatisticsPage 1Methods for quantifying distributions can be divided into classical measures (mean, standard deviation, etc.) and robust measures (median, interquartile ra
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Cladistics 15, 7374 (1999) Article ID clad.1999.0088, available online at http:/www.idealibrary.com onFORUM Comments on Allard and Carpenter (1996), or the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis RevisitedRoderic D. M. Page1 and Michael A. Charleston2Division of
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Data Analysis Toolkit #9: Experimentwise error rates and statistical fishing expeditionsPage 1Researchers can control the risk of "false positives" (that is, the risk of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is in fact true) by setting at an app
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Toolkit #8: Hodges-Lehmann estimatorsPage 1Since the distributional assumptions underlying classical parametric statistical tests are often violated (by, for example, extreme skew or kurtosis in the data), it is often necessary to use non-paramet
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 10: Pitfalls in regression and correlation analysesSimple linear regression and correlation are perhaps the most widely used data analysis techniques in environmental science. Most of thos
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 7: Fitting functions to data, part 2In last week's lab, you explored some of the problems that can arise if one fits an excessively complex function to data that cannot adequately constrai
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 6: Fitting functions to data Many data analysis problems are centrally concerned with selecting a function that expresses the relationship between two (or more) variables, and estimating thi
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Data Analysis Toolkit #3: Tools for Transforming DataPage 1Reasons to transform data -to more closely approximate a theoretical distribution that has nice statistical properties -to spread data out more evenly -to make data distributions more sym
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Cladistics (1996) 12:183198ON WEIGHTING AND CONGRUENCEMarc W. Allard1 and James M. Carpenter 21Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, and 2Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural
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Data Analysis Toolkit #11: Serial correlation11.Sources of serial correlationSerial correlation (also called autocorrelation) occurs when residuals from adjacent measurements in a time series are not independent of one another (that is, if th
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DeadGrandmotherThe Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society.Mike Adams, Biology Department Eastern Connecticut State University The Connecticut Review, 1990It has long been theorized that the week prior to an
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Data Analysis Toolkit #1: Graphically Displaying Data DistributionsPage 1Boxplots (also called box-and-whisker plots) Advantages: -compact, concise, simple to draw. Disadvantages: -obscure many finer features of distribution -emphasize tails of d
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 8: t-tests and ANOVA in JMPPart A. Laboratory intercomparison study-dissolved oxygen measurements Environmental monitoring data often come from laboratory measurements of chemical concentr
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 9: Exploratory analysis, ANOVA and linear regression in environmental time seriesThe California Air Resources Board (or ARB) operates a network of air quality monitoring stations that cont
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 11: Detecting and accounting for serial correlation Serial correlation is very common in environmental time series. Serial correlation (also called autocorrelation) occurs when the residuals
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 2: Exploring the Central Limit Theorem The Central Limit Theorem has far-reaching implications for almost every aspect of data analysis, but the formal mathematical proof of the theorem is s
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor KirchnerLaboratory 1: Introduction to JMP and qualitative analysis of distributionsThis lab gives you a chance to become familiar with some of the basics of using JMP. You will work through some simple intr
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 5: Statistical significance and power Two central concepts in data analysis and statistics are statistical significance and power. Statistical significance expresses the ability of a techniq
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Environmental Data Laboratory Professor Kirchner Laboratory 12: Sunspots and melanoma: an environmental detective story Melanoma is a form of cancer that occurs in the skin. Risk factors for melanoma include a history of severe sunburns and living at
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Earth and Planetary Science 120/Energy and Resources 130 Analysis of Environmental Data Registration: Class meets: Web site: Professor: Earth and Planetary Science C120 - or - Energy and Resources C130 Tuesday & Thursday 11:00-12:30, Room 60 Evans Ha
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EPS 116Structural Geology and TectonicsField Exercise #2Deformation in the Franciscan Complex The Franciscan is an accretionary complex, which records over 140 million years of east-dipping subduction. Coeval with the formation of the subduction
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