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Originally Posted by russotto
I _do_ understand statistical sampling. They didn't give the confidence interval for that range, unfortunately. But I think you've drawn your curve with too small a std deviation.
And remember that's considering only statistical sampling uncertainty.
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Hey, what do you want from a sketch drawn on a Domino's pizza napkin while at the same time going over notes for my next lecture? Next time I'll send it in for peer review, first. Good to know someone else around here understands sexually transmitted diseases among deviates! 
Seriously, anyone who questions the sampling methodology or linear regression techniques used should at least take a look at the original paper published in The Lancet. http://www.thelancet.com/home
Registration is free and the document can be found here:
http://pdf.thelancet.com/pdfdownload...1264.1&x=x.pdf
The conclusions this study draws have grave implications regarding the US conduct of the war. Dismissing the data without even looking at the source is not what I would have expected from educated people who honestly want to understand what is happening in Iraq.
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Last edited by Schrodinger's Cat; 02-01-2005 at 03:52 PM.
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