| Autor: |
José Luis Hernández Cáceres, Jorge Luis Pollo García, Carlos M. Martínez Ortiz, Luis García Domínguez |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2008 |
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| Zdroj: |
Electronic Journal of Biomedicine, Vol 2008, Iss 1, Pp 27-35 (2008) |
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Aim: To explore whether the first digit law (FDL) is abided by data sets from biological origin.Materials and Methods: Data were collected from different sources, including gene data length for bacteria, pre-vaccination measles incidence data and absolute values from human MEG recordings. First digit frequencies were computed and compared to predictions from FDL. Simulations included a simple model for two-dimensional epidemics spread and a randomly set upper bound model aimed to explain the behaviour of MEG data.Results: We observed that FDL is obeyed in a case of epidemic data reported at a putative focus of spread (pre-vaccination measles incidence for Preston, England). However, peculiar departures were observed for gene length distribution in microorganisms, magneto-encephalograms (MEG), and epidemic data pooled from large geographical regions.Conclusions: Simulation studies revealed that averaging data on a scenario of propagating waves can explain some of the observed distortions from FDL. This could help to understand the behaviour of epidemics data. A randomly set upper bound model (RUBM) can likely explain the observed behaviour of MEG data. Explanation for gene length data behaviour requires further theoretical work. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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