New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?

The necessity of the mathematical description of living processes and the recent advances in theoretical syntheses that fit surprisingly well with real data have led many scientists to experiment with new "generalizations," beginning with allometric equations. I present here, briefly, why...

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Autor principal:	NESPOLO,ROBERTO F
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2005
Materias:	Fallacy of averages dimensional analysis invariants allometric equations error term
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-976020050001000042005-07-06New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?NESPOLO,ROBERTO F Fallacy of averages dimensional analysis invariants allometric equations error term The necessity of the mathematical description of living processes and the recent advances in theoretical syntheses that fit surprisingly well with real data have led many scientists to experiment with new "generalizations," beginning with allometric equations. I present here, briefly, why caution is needed when allometric equations are multiplied or divided to make new ones. This practice is flawed by old and recognized problems, such as the fallacy of averages combined with misunderstandings that include error propagation, misuse of statistics and confounding scale.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad de Biología de ChileBiological Research v.38 n.1 20052005-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602005000100004en10.4067/S0716-97602005000100004
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spellingShingle	Fallacy of averages dimensional analysis invariants allometric equations error term NESPOLO,ROBERTO F New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?
description	The necessity of the mathematical description of living processes and the recent advances in theoretical syntheses that fit surprisingly well with real data have led many scientists to experiment with new "generalizations," beginning with allometric equations. I present here, briefly, why caution is needed when allometric equations are multiplied or divided to make new ones. This practice is flawed by old and recognized problems, such as the fallacy of averages combined with misunderstandings that include error propagation, misuse of statistics and confounding scale.
author	NESPOLO,ROBERTO F
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title	New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?
title_short	New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?
title_full	New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?
title_fullStr	New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?
title_full_unstemmed	New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?
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New invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?

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