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Posted by AlGol on 02 Apr 2011 at 11:24 GMT

observation and b. model
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008845#pone-0008845-g008

Checking the shapes of the experimental and modelled distribution presented in Fig.8 shows that the experimental one is best consistent with an exponentially modified Gaussian (EMG) and least consistent with Weibull (as suggested by the ranked list of 25 peak functions inbuilt in TableCurve2D software tool), whereas the modelled one is best consistent with Weibull and much worse consistent with EMG. Different distributions should be expected to result from different processes. Therefore there must be a significant difference between the real process that generates the experimental distribution and the modelled process. The relevance of EMG to some biologically meaningful distributions is discussed in J. Theor. Biol 262 (2010) 257–266 (doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.10.005)

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