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

dc.creatorNESPOLO,ROBERTO F
dc.date2005-01-01
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dc.identifierhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602005000100004
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/384590
dc.descriptionThe 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.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherSociedad de Biología de Chile
dc.sourceBiological Research v.38 n.1 2005
dc.subjectFallacy of averages
dc.subjectdimensional analysis
dc.subjectinvariants
dc.subjectallometric equations
dc.subjecterror term
dc.titleNew invariants and dimensionless numbers: futile renaissance of old fallacies?
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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