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  • 1.  Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-14-2016 13:04

    I need to find a consultant who can apply the Coal Miner's Distance as a metric to compare globule size distribution between two pharmaceutical products (i.e. generic vs. brand).  Please let me know and I can put you in touch with several pharmaceutical companies who need someone with this statistical expertise.

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    Charles Bon
    President and Founder
    Biostudy Solutions, LLC
    Chuck@biostudysolutions.com
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  • 2.  RE: Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-14-2016 21:04
    Hi Charles, 

    I Googled "Coal Miner's Distance" (with quotes), and all I got was this link: 

    Carp Fishing Tackle For Sale On Ebay - Flashlightinc.xyz

    When I did it without the quote marks, I got 504,000 results, but the first two pages did not have anything statistical. 

    Now I am curious. What is the Coal Miner's Distance? 

    Thank you,

    Nayak


    Nayak L Polissar, PhD
    The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistics
    1827 23rd Ave. East
    Seattle, WA 98112
    Tel. 206-329-9325
    Fax 206-324-5915
    polissar@u.washington.edu (for university affairs only) 






    ------Original Message------

    I need to find a consultant who can apply the Coal Miner's Distance as a metric to compare globule size distribution between two pharmaceutical products (i.e. generic vs. brand).  Please let me know and I can put you in touch with several pharmaceutical companies who need someone with this statistical expertise.

    ------------------------------
    Charles Bon
    President and Founder
    Biostudy Solutions, LLC
    Chuck@biostudysolutions.com
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  • 3.  RE: Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-15-2016 10:29
    All,

    We are asked about these 'Banana Moon' Techniques on a regular basis.  We must refer them to a Statistical Dictionary.  

    Randy Bartlett
    LinkedIn Group: About Data Analysis
    Website: http://www.BlueSigmaAnalytics.com
    Analytics Magazine:     http://goo.gl/Wod3gk , http://goo.gl/rZ7ys
    Datafloq Blog: https://goo.gl/8u31Ok
    Please visit the book and 'agree' to the reviews if they are helpful at:     http://amzn.to/YGhXzv 


    ------Original Message------

    Hi Charles, 

    I Googled "Coal Miner's Distance" (with quotes), and all I got was this link: 

    Carp Fishing Tackle For Sale On Ebay - Flashlightinc.xyz

    When I did it without the quote marks, I got 504,000 results, but the first two pages did not have anything statistical. 

    Now I am curious. What is the Coal Miner's Distance? 

    Thank you,

    Nayak


    Nayak L Polissar, PhD
    The Mountain-Whisper-Light Statistics
    1827 23rd Ave. East
    Seattle, WA 98112
    Tel. 206-329-9325
    Fax 206-324-5915
    polissar@u.washington.edu (for university affairs only) 








  • 4.  RE: Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-15-2016 10:52

    I Googled "Banana Moon" and all I got was links to a shopping site and pictures of women in swimwear.  This thread is getting weirder by the minute.

     



    ------Original Message------

    All,

    We are asked about these 'Banana Moon' Techniques on a regular basis.  We must refer them to a Statistical Dictionary.  

    Randy Bartlett
    LinkedIn Group: About Data Analysis
    Website: http://www.BlueSigmaAnalytics.com
    Analytics Magazine:     http://goo.gl/Wod3gk , http://goo.gl/rZ7ys
    Datafloq Blog: https://goo.gl/8u31Ok
    Please visit the book and 'agree' to the reviews if they are helpful at:     http://amzn.to/YGhXzv 




  • 5.  RE: Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-15-2016 14:09
    Christopher,

    Exactly the point, there are these made up names for techniques that do not exist or already have a name in the Statistical Dictionary.  

    Randy Bartlett
    LinkedIn Group: About Data Analysis
    Website: http://www.BlueSigmaAnalytics.com
    Analytics Magazine:     http://goo.gl/Wod3gk , http://goo.gl/rZ7ys
    Datafloq Blog: https://goo.gl/8u31Ok
    Please visit the book and 'agree' to the reviews if they are helpful at:     http://amzn.to/YGhXzv 


    ------Original Message------

    I Googled "Banana Moon" and all I got was links to a shopping site and pictures of women in swimwear.  This thread is getting weirder by the minute.

     





  • 6.  RE: Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-15-2016 10:49

    Is "coal miner's distance" the length of a chord (an imaginary tunnel through the earth) between two points on the surface?

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    Emil M Friedman, PhD
    emilfriedman@gmail.com
    http://www.statisticalconsulting.org



  • 7.  RE: Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-16-2016 11:16
    Perhaps "Coal Miner's Distance" is an alternative name for "Earth Mover's Distance"?  EMD is a metric on probability distributions, also known as the Wasserstein metric.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_mover%27s_distance for a description and references.

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    Michael W. Trosset
    Professor & Chair of Statistics  
    Executive Director of the
    Indiana Statistical Consulting Center
    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN


    "Luck is probability taken personally.
     It is the excitement of bad math." 
                       Penn & Teller

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    ------Original Message------

    Is "coal miner's distance" the length of a chord (an imaginary tunnel through the earth) between two points on the surface?

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    Emil M Friedman, PhD
    emilfriedman@gmail.com
    http://www.statisticalconsulting.org
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  • 8.  RE: Need for consultant who can apply Coal Miner's Distance to Pharmaceutical Problem

    Posted 11-16-2016 11:28

    Thanks to everyone who responded to my request.  I am sorry my brain went on the fritz when I indicated the method was the Coal Miner's Distance instead of the correct one, the Earth Mover's Distance.  One of the early responses I received indicated that their group could handle this, so I passed along their contact information to my clients who needed help in this area.  I will be sure to post requests for help when I get one from a client who needs something that is outside of my area of expertise.  

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    Chuck Bon
    President and Founder
    Biostudy Solutions, LLC