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How to read papers as a graduate student/junior researcher?

Don't read each paper in depth!

Posted on September 1, 2019

My advisor used to tell me: read broadly to gain knowledge; read with questions in mind; grasp the main message from papers. [Read More]
Tags: efficiency

generate lots of string combinations at once

GNU parallel

Posted on August 25, 2019

In our work, we often need to generate lots of similar commands at once. There are lots of ways to do this, I just want to write about the one I used the most often: Parallel [Read More]
Tags: utility

Inverse normal transformation

What is it and how to do it?

Posted on August 17, 2019

In statistical genetics field, we often observe non-normal distributed data. Also, we use linear models and parametric tests a lot. Linear models and parametric tests often assume residuals are normaly distributed. Then how do we respond to non-normality? [Read More]
Tags: data transformation statistics

To be a graduate student for the first time

helpful resources

Posted on August 9, 2019

Hi there, this is my first post. Currently, I am a 4th year graduate student. Maybe I should know how to be a graduate student very well by now. But the truth is that I am still constantly facing new situations that I am not sure what to do. I... [Read More]
Tags: life graduate school

Test markdown

Each post also has a subtitle

Posted on February 28, 2015

Here is some bold text [Read More]
Tags: test
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