Re: rare event

From: John Altman (altman@microbio.emory.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 07 1999 - 23:06:57 EST


on 12/7/99 11:25 AM, Leary, James F. at jleary@utmb.edu wrote:


> So truth is in the eyes of the beholder. After doing rare-event analysis
> for almost 20 years, I am inherently a skeptic. Show me the unequivocal
> molecular results to make me a believer! Good luck with your skeptics. I
> hope you find the papers helpful.   -- Best regards,  Jim Leary
> 


I've deleted most of the previous discussion from this message, but I have
found the whole discussion most useful and I applaud Jim's scepticism.

I also wish that we could get all those people claiming extremely high
levels of sensitivity in cytokine ELISpot assays to read this discussion....

John
 
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