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Tag: Statistics

What is change??

Posted October 24, 2017 by Briana K. Whitaker

Graphical display showing four different trend lines, each in a different color. Direction of the trends is generally positive (increasing moving left to right across the plot), but with variation over time.

What is “change”? This might at first seem like an oddly philosophical question to encounter in a science blog. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once described change as the idea that “One cannot step into the same river twice” (paraphrased; Graham 2015). However, this more existential definition for change differs in important ways from the one… Read more »

Biological Venn diagrams: Where do math and biology intersect?

Posted December 20, 2016 by Briana K. Whitaker

Think back to some of the core materials you learned from a biology course, either in college or high school. What do you remember? Maybe you remember something about human anatomy, or the carbon cycle, the structure of cells, or how DNA is replicated? But do you ever immediately think about how math and biology… Read more »

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