tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367102802658603789.post1116406950290453381..comments2024-01-29T04:29:03.583-08:00Comments on David Clunie's Blog: What's that 'mean', or is 'mean' 'meaningless'?David Cluniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17331067317921452126noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1367102802658603789.post-48604660431941623342016-03-22T01:09:23.076-07:002016-03-22T01:09:23.076-07:00Dear David,
Thanks for bringing this to our atten...Dear David,<br /><br />Thanks for bringing this to our attention<br /><br />A couple of clarifications on 2 points made in your blog post<br />1. ".....STATO doesn't seem to define 'codes'and just uses the human-readable 'labels'"'....""<br /><br />this is incorrect:<br /> STATO does define code in the form of PURL: <br />http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000401 is the ID (code)<br /> for an entity/concept whose 'preferred name' is 'sample mean'<br /><br /><br />each STATO class has a URI and a set of class metadata, namely 'prefered label', 'definition', 'definition source (with bibliographic reference)', 'curation status', 'example of usage || R command', 'term editor'<br /><br /><br />2. "STATO have useless circular definitions":<br /><br />Paying closer attention to that particular class indicates it is an import from OBI, the ontology of biomedical investigation. STATO aims to interoperate with the rest of the OBO foundry resources and therefore reused concepts from artefacts which covered some of the ground in previous work. So the not so great definition is on OBI, failure to improve on this is on us.<br />We have now done our due diligence by providing a clearer textual definition, replacing the OBI definition and supported it by a link to numpy python command for computing the values.<br /><br />The latest release of STATO (https://github.com/ISA-tools/stato/releases/tag/v1.3) now distinguishes the following means:<br /><br />arithmetic mean (definition extension to OBI_0000679) synonym for 'average value'<br />geometric mean (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000396)<br />harmonic mean (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000397)<br />weighting arithmetic mean (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000398)<br />interquartile mean (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000399), a subtype of trimmed mean (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000163)<br />quadratic mean (http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/STATO_0000400)<br /><br /><br /><br />Finally, we'd like to point you to STATO github code repository:<br /><br />https://github.com/ISA-tools/stato<br />and its issue tracker:<br />https://github.com/ISA-tools/stato/issues<br /><br />This is the most straightforward way to contribute to STATO content and collaborate with our group.<br /><br />Best wishes<br /><br />Philippe Rocca-Serra<br />Alejandra Gonzalez-BeltranOscarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07419156401501098610noreply@blogger.com