Round 6: Tossup 3
Mark Robinson showed gene expression data deviates from this distribution, which is accounted for using a different distribution in the DESeq2 (“D-E-seek-two”) package. The deviation of photon occupation number from this distribution is caused by antibunching. This distribution is the distribution of survivors in the null hypothesis of the Luria–Delbruck experiment. This distribution gives the molecular weight distribution produced by living polymerization. Both shot noise and the number of radioactive decay events from a slowly decaying source obey this distribution, which is followed by the event count of independent events with a constant mean rate. A single parameter lambda specifies both mean and variance in, for 10 points, what probability distribution named for a Frenchman? ■END■
ANSWER: Poisson distribution [accept Poissonian statistics; accept Poisson noise] (The first sentence refers to overdispersion in RNA-seq data and how DESeq2 accounts for it by fitting to a negative binomial distribution instead.)
<GC, Other Science> | Packet G - McMaster A, Notre Dame C, Rutgers A, NYU A
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