[Basta-users] Making estimates precise

[Fernando Colchero]

Dear Cliff,

  I cannot find where in the documentation we say that agesQuant provides continuous age estimates, where did you find it so we can correct it? BaSTA right now works on unit time intervals and thus agesQuant provides the 50% quantile and the lower and upper 95% credible intervals for the age estimates. All three numbers are in time units, not continuous. We are working on extending BaSTA to take not only CMR data but other types of data as well, some of which will have continuous age. We'll have that in the future.

  Best,

   Fernando

Fernando Colchero
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging

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On 31 Oct 2013, at 15:11, Cliff Cunningham <cliff at duke.edu> wrote:

> Dear Fernando,
> 
> 	Thank you for the prompt reply.  Still, the documentation says that the agesQuant command can be delivered as real numbers instead of integers.  I assume this would be in the commands to create the basta object to begin with.  What command would that be?
> 	
> 	All the best!
> 
>    	Cliff Cunningham
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Fernando Colchero
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Max-Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging

Tlf.               +45 65 50 23 24
Email           colchero at imada.sdu.dk
Web             www.sdu.dk/staff/colchero
Pers. web   www.colchero.com
Adr.              Campusvej 55, 5230, Odense, Dk

University of Southern Denmark

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