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After all, in this piece the car-home-and-fire salesman turned global strategist describes the Gulf War as if it were a model of Clausewitzian clarity concerning ultimate goals and acceptable means, forgetting in the process that at the end of that war, the Bush/Powell/Schwarzkopf axis internally disagreed about war issues that had never been articulated for the American people: Should the U.S. destroy the Iraqi military, invade Baghdad, or topple Hussein even after Iraq was repulsed from Kuwait?
A useful property of cumulative distribution functions is that any point on the y axis gives the integrated area (cumulative probability) under the curve.
Inferred estimates at each node are assessed independently of location along the x -axis, so that regressions across them are valid.
$5-- Features pictures of argument-stopping Hitler, comical tyrant Mussolini, and not actually the leader of an Axis power Bill Clinton.
Note that although there is esthetic appeal to having the measurements reported on an absolute basis of transcripts per cell, little additional information is obtained by this transformation for most experimental questions, as the result is simply a rescaling of the y -axis for each gene.