Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 37685 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2003 18:16:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hqexch01.upstate.com) (205.160.101.145) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 17 Aug 2003 18:16:13 -0000 Received: from IQUITOS (suelaptop.ltd.upstate.com [172.17.1.101]) by hqexch01.upstate.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id QPVPJW0J; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:16:27 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Eric Pugh" To: "'Jakarta Commons Developers List'" Subject: RE: [math] Would code for generating IC50 curves fit here? Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 20:16:15 +0200 Message-ID: <002f01c364eb$a67f7950$96d7fea9@IQUITOS> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <20030817174841.4700.qmail@web41302.mail.yahoo.com> X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Al, You are correct.. Those curves are used for testing data, looking for "goodness of fit" when plotting a series of data points that should be on a nice curve. You are right about more general curve fitting would be the way to go. I'm hoping to not reinvent the wheel on this, but if I do, I will post it to [math] as a proposal. Eric -----Original Message----- From: Al Chou [mailto:hotfusionman@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 7:49 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [math] Would code for generating IC50 curves fit here? --- Eric Pugh wrote: > Hi all, > > I am faced with a needing to generate IC50 (also called EC50) curves for a > project. > > A) Does anyone know of any packages that do this? > > B) If not, would this be something of interest for Math? I don't think we have any curve-fitting code yet. I think a set of more widely used curves (a brief search on Google suggests that IC50/EC50 curves are used primarily in pharmacology, is that right?) would be higher on the priority list, if we were to put curve fitting in scope for some release (it probably wouldn't be the initial release, given the situation to date). Al ===== Albert Davidson Chou Get answers to Mac questions at http://www.Mac-Mgrs.org/ . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org