Questions tagged [chemistry]
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Does this problem satisfy markov properties to be modeled as HMM?
I want to model a chemical reaction network which is defined by a stoichiometric matrix $\nu^{s\times m} $ where $s$ is the number of participating species and $m$ the number of chemical reactions. If ...
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Function to fit acid reaction curve
Data in the image below shows a variable DME reacting to the increase in acid concentration. It looks like it has a very fast increase from when the concentration is raised from 0 to 0.5 and then a ...
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How to estimate the uncertainty of a function that has to be solved numerically
Consider I have a function:
$PV_m^3 - PbV_m^2 +aV_m+ab=RT$
In this example I have measured the uncertainties in $P$ and $T$ experimentally and the errors in $a$ and $b$ can be assumed to be zero. ...
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Emergence of Lognormal distribution for the concentration of chemical compounds
I'm currently reviewing the literature about lognormal distributions describing/approximating the variability of a given chemical compound across different cells/ samples etc etc.
The main argument ...
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Adjacency matrix of amino-acid residue [closed]
How to get the mathematical representation of the chemical bonds in protein residue or the whole protein? Is it possible to get the connectivity matrix or a pairwise description?
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Can one use parametric regression tests (e.g., Pearson's R2) on summary statistics (that are normal) derived from non-normal data?
Can one use parametric linear regression tests (e.g., Pearson's R2) on summary statistics (e.g., mean and median) that are normal but derived from non-normal data?
I am specifically dealing with mean ...
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Intersections of chemistry and statistics
I am asking this question for a friend who knows a lot of chemistry and is now studying statistics, primarily since he heard this is the age of data and one should know statistics. However, he is ...
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Dimensions of clustering results
My PhD research (computational organic chemistry) often generates large data sets (>10000 entires) of 'conformers' - where a conformer is basically the spatial arrangement of atoms in space.
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Analyzing a chemistry experiment - Sampling without replacement
I've been reviewing the results of an interesting chemistry experiment a colleague of mine was conducting, and she sought some help analyzing the results. Would you be able to help, please?
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Correlation between chemical analysis results
I have performed chemical analysis on a sample and the resulting data is something like this: "Carbon: 1.2%, Iron: 50%, Vanadium 2.3% ..." and so on.
I have 25 sets of similar data taken from other ...
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What kind of neural network for varying size input & multiple values to predict
I am fairly new to neural networks, I have experience implementing a few simple CNN and RNNs. I really appreciate any advice.
I am looking to train a NN to predict the binding affinity for protein ...
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Find (latent) variables which correlate with age of samples (Time series correlations)
I have 8 samples of whisky which are all from the same producer, matured in the same type of casks. However, the casks were (naturally) different.
My ages range from 5 years to 32 years old, but ...
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Elementary Statistics book using Chemistry Data Sets
I searched a lot but could not find an Elementary Statistics book using Chemistry data sets for examples and exercises. I would highly appreciate if someone point out me such books.
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Choice of statistical test - confirmation
I want to know if I'm choosing the right statistical test for my situation.
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In a production process there are several places where wastewater is created (lets call these "spots", spot 1,...
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When if ever is a median statistic a sufficient statistic?
I came across a remark on The Chemical Statistician that a sample median could often be a choice for a sufficient statistic but, besides the obvious case of one or two observations where it equals the ...
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Evaluating a clinical test
I need to evaluate a test (posterior predictive value) but the test results can change based on certain other independent factors. Let's say my test measures a biochemical value but depending on what ...
