Hi All

Sorry about the delay in reply, I am rather busy at the moment getting 
to grips with Geometric Morphometrics. The statistical side of the 
subject may be able to throw light on the difficult interactions between 
bee viruses.

Jerry wrote (of PCR)...

> So, three viruses = three primers.  Since its pricey, most
> investigators can't afford  to survey for all viruses.

We seem to be seeing different effects of a particular virus, with 
different combinations of viruses (and other problems) present. The 
numbers of viruses involved are considered too expensive to investigate 
all at once.

I pose the question... Can we do this work in a synthetic fashion, 
purely with numbers, in order to produce large arrays of synthetic data 
sets that can be compared to what 'real' data we do have ?

If and when the real data matches that produced by the numbers, the 
numbers that produced the synthetic data must relate to the real 
situation. It requires a lot of number crunching, but computers are good 
at that and I think it likely someone in our online community has the 
knowledge to implement it.

It seams feasible to me, can anyone shoot it down ?


Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
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