Transcript Group Project Using Statistics and Mathematica to Analyze Body Temperatures RBIF-0103-G1

RBIF-0103-G1
Probability and Statistics
Prof. M. Partensky
Brandeis University - Spring 2003
Group Project
Using Statistics and Mathematica
to Analyze Body Temperatures
Vaishali Khamamkar
Timothy Foley
Statistics and Mathematica in
the Biological Sciences
• Our Audience
– Biologists – Interested in the science we are
presenting
– Mathematicians – Interested in the statistics and
mathematics that we use
– Computer Scientists – Interested in our use of
the Mathematica software package
Study area – The measure of Human and
Animal Body Temperature
1. Human Body Temperature – the Myth of
98.6° Fahrenheit
2. Squirrel Temperature –
Hibernation
3. Predicting Ovulation with Basal
Body Temperature
Concluding Remarks
• We found several interesting areas of study related to body
temperature
• We learned things that we did not know or expect
• Our knowledge of Statistics was broadened by this project
• We found Mathematica to be a powerful and useful tool (once
we got the hang of it!)
Online and Print References
• Time Series: General,
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by David R. Brillinger, U.C. Berkeley
http://stat-www.berkeley.edu/users/brill/Stat248/draft8.pdf
• What's Normal? -- Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate
(Article and datasets) Allen L. Shoemaker , Calvin College,
Journal of Statistics Education v.4, n.2 (1996)
– http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v4n2/datasets.shoemaker.html
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Squirrel Temperature Data:
European Squirrel Hibernation
– http://link.springerny.com/link/service/journals/00360/contents/01/00226/paper/s0036001002
26ch100.html#N172
Online and Print References (2)
• Website: Basal Body Temeprature
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http://www.ovulation-calculator.com
http://www.ovulation-calculator.com/bbt-faq.htm
• Website: The Babymed Pregnancy BBT Charts
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http://www.babymed.com/docs/english/620.asp
• BBT, Nocturnal Sleep and Ovulation
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Joseph Eldor, MD, Theoretical Medicine Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
http://www.csen.com/theory/bbt.htm