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5 by 3 :: Take on the world with a stack of 5 by 3 index cards – one way to get Web sites sorted before clicking on the Dreamweaver icon when building a moderately complex Web site. This page describes card sorting techniques to help plan Web sites. Ideally card sorting can help define content – not so much [...] ::
Normal distribution sample simulation :: Histograms are meaningless for datasets smaller than about 500 items – you will be better off using a dotplot. I think that the ‘error bar’ for each bar of the histogram can be approximated by the square root of the frequency so that a bar with a frequency of 36 could have a standard deviation [...] ::
Blood spatter pattern analysis :: The MathsWorks Project has a series of laboratory projects on different aspects of Maths in Biotechnology. One of the projects is about blood spatter pattern analysis and has a very usable practical using milk to calibrate the relationship between drop stain shape and angle of surface. There is also a good treatment of the mathematical assumptions [...] ::
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