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Talk:Significance of E. Coli Evolution Experiments (view source)
Revision as of 22:07, March 5, 2009
, 22:07, March 5, 2009reply to Able806
:::Able806, I'm interested in looking at the publications you mentioned that use Monte Carlo methods to analyze small data sets. Could you provide some examples? Thanks. [[User:SJohnson|SJohnson]] 16:41, 5 March 2009 (EST)
:::Able806, I'm interested in looking at the publications you mentioned that use Monte Carlo methods to analyze small data sets. Could you provide some examples? Thanks. [[User:SJohnson|SJohnson]] 16:41, 5 March 2009 (EST)
:::Able806, you still seem to miss the point about how inappropriate the Monte Carlo method (as used in the Lenski paper) is for evaluating rarely occurring events. You need to open your mind to be productive. If you simply cling to a view that Lenski (who I don't think has any meaningful education in statistics) must somehow be right, then you're not going to make any progress in understanding the flaws.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 17:07, 5 March 2009 (EST)
Sjohnson, I believe you just proved my point. In the literature of mean and covariance structure analysis, non-central chi-square distribution is commonly used to describe the behavior of the likelihood ratio statistic under alternative hypothesis; it is widely believed that the non-central chi-square distribution is justified by statistical theory. Actually, when the null hypothesis is not trivially violated, the non-central chi-square distribution cannot describe the LR statistic well even when data are normally distributed and the sample size is large. Monte Carlo results compare the strength of the normal distribution against that of the non-central chi-square distribution. In an association analysis comparing cases and controls with respect to allele frequencies at a highly polymorphic locus, a potential problem is that the conventional chi-squared test may not be valid for a large, sparse contingency table. Reliance on statistics with known asymptotic distribution is unnecessary, as Monte Carlo simulations can be performed to estimate the significance level of the test statistic.
Sjohnson, I believe you just proved my point. In the literature of mean and covariance structure analysis, non-central chi-square distribution is commonly used to describe the behavior of the likelihood ratio statistic under alternative hypothesis; it is widely believed that the non-central chi-square distribution is justified by statistical theory. Actually, when the null hypothesis is not trivially violated, the non-central chi-square distribution cannot describe the LR statistic well even when data are normally distributed and the sample size is large. Monte Carlo results compare the strength of the normal distribution against that of the non-central chi-square distribution. In an association analysis comparing cases and controls with respect to allele frequencies at a highly polymorphic locus, a potential problem is that the conventional chi-squared test may not be valid for a large, sparse contingency table. Reliance on statistics with known asymptotic distribution is unnecessary, as Monte Carlo simulations can be performed to estimate the significance level of the test statistic.