BIOS601 AGENDA: Friday September 02, 2011

[updated August 29, 2011]
Agenda for Friday Sept 02, 2011 Notes:

The choice of this year's measurement exercise is motivated in part by JH's research interests in the data
'behind' Kaplan-Meier survival curves (see Biostatistics seminar on Sept 06) but also by the fact that it
provides a practical and useful 'object' to be measured --and we need to quantify the limits of digitization.

In other years, we have 'measured' other objects, some physical (such as student heights, estimated by eye
from the back of the classroom while the student presented at 'break the ice' sessions), some abstract
(such as the 'readability' of books used as readers in elementary and high school -- we used computer tools
such as those found in Microsoft Word. See the Readability Indices section in the Resources for Measurement).