New Tool Could Unpick Complex Cancer Causes & Help Sociologists Mine Facebook

Researchers at the University of Warwick’s Department of Statistics and Centre for Complexity Science have devised a new research tool that could help unpick the complex cell interactions that lead to cancer and also allow social scientists to mine social networking sites such as Facebook for useful insights. An approach called “graphical models” can be used by researchers to gain an understanding of a range of systems with multiple interacting factors.

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Filed under: Cancer on December 19th, 2008