Any mathematicians in?

[Pob255]

Surely all you really need to look at is the result plot, and maybe the equation where you enter your waist circumference and whatever other parameters and it outputs your risk of death, right? If the paper is lacking these things then I suggest you email the authors and tell them they are a bunch of useless rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish.

Or a lobby group, wouldn't be the first time a "study" was funded to prove a point/support an industry.

The fatter you get, the more you die.

So what's the fat cut off point where I wouldn't die quite so much?

[Gr44]

After a 35minute phone call to o2 (bunch of useless morons) this thread has cheered me up and made me LOL. =D

[bsodmike]

Splines are fine but the problem is that quadratic and cubic splines are subject to instability, and even oscillations; these tend to get worse with order, usually.

It is for this reason that I personally prefer the bezier-bernstein polynomials for interpolation purposes as not only is it parametrically defined but one is always assured of connectivity due to the "convex hull" property of such bezier paths.

[Whiternoise]

Splines are fine but the problem is that quadratic and cubic splines are subject to instability, and even oscillations; these tend to get worse with order, usually.

It is for this reason that I personally prefer the bezier-bernstein polynomials for interpolation purposes as not only is it parametrically defined but one is always assured of connectivity due to the "convex hull" property of such bezier paths.

Personally i use a pencil and a ruler to interpolate my graphs , but that's my choice.

[bsodmike]

I took a snap of the following for a 'friend' who is into Rolex, fountain pens, inks etc. Most of the stuff I seem to be writing these days is math related; any who, Newton's Divided Difference Interpolating Polynomial is also a rather nice approach and is particularly suited for use with computational approaches (i.e. implementation via a high-level programming language/MATLAB/Mathematica etc).