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Anoutlier is a data point on the extreme end of your dataset. It could be very large or very small, but it is abnormally different from most of the other values in your dataset. There are many reasons for outliers, and they can show up in any kind of study.

It's best to think about outliers as points of interest, and what to do with them isn't straightforward. They could be as simple as data entry errors or the outliers could themselves be an important research finding. That's quite a range, and it could be anywhere in between, too! Use our outlier checklist to help decide what to do in your case.

Grubbs' Test, or the extreme studentized deviant (ESD) method, is a simple technique to quantify outliers in your study. It is based on a normal distribution and a test statistic (Z) that is calculated from the most extreme data point. The test statistic corresponds to a p-value that represents the likelihood of seeing that outlier assuming the underlying data is Gaussian.

The P value is interpreted like normality testing: If the P value corresponding to this Z is less than the alpha value chosen (such as .05), it is considered a significant outlier. The results page will then mark this data point as an outlier. If that P value is greater than alpha, the test concludes there is no evidence of an outlier in your dataset.

The second main limitation is that Grubbs' assumes the data was sampled from a normal (or gaussian) distribution. However, it's rare to observe "normal" data in the world. For example, in the biological sciences, data often follows a lognormal distribution, which looks at first to have obvious outliers if the pattern is not recognized appropriately. See our example that uses Grubbs' Test on a lognormal distribution.

Outliers lend themselves to graphics perhaps more than any other aspect of statistics. Scatter plots, box plots, and violin plots are common ways to see where your dataset clumps together and which values are the extremes.

Enjoying this calculator? Prism offers more capabilities for outlier detection, including methods like Grubbs' Test, ROUT, and more. We offer a free 30-day trial of Prism and its publication-ready graphic creation.

This update is based on the post-CDR optical design. The wavefront error model includes design residuals and Monte Carlo estimates of surface figure errors and alignment tolerances. We plan to issue a new release in 2025 once we have wavefront measurements of the integrated telescope and Wide-Field Instrument.

Point spread functions (PSFs) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have been created using WebbPSF version 1.0, a Python-based package. This tool takes into account properties of the telescope and the instruments, including detector pixel scale, rotations, filter profiles, and point source spectra. These are not full optical models, simply a tool that transforms the optical path difference maps, into the resulting Roman PSFs.

*Note: PSF FWHM in arcseconds simulated for a detector near the center of the WFI FOV using an input spectrum for a K0V type star. Please click on the FWHM value for each filter to view the simulated PSF.

FWHM (arcsec) of PSF is computed from 8-times oversampled PSF. Gaussian pointing jitter with FWHM = 8 mas is included. The number of noise pixels and maximum flux per pixel are computed on native detector pixels.

The Roman Effective area has been updated to reflect recalibration of the sensor ship assembly (SCA) quantum efficiency, and preliminary updates to the filter bandpasses. The tables have also been broken out by SCA to illustrate the small differences in QE and the shift in filter bandpasses with field angle. Download the Filter Effective Area tables [.ZIP]

The table below gives the 5-sigma AB magnitude limiting sensitivity, for twice the minimum zodiacal light background (roughly equivalent to that obtained at an ecliptic latitude of 25 degrees at a Solar elongation of 90 degrees), for 57 second and one-hour integrations, for point sources and a compact galaxy with half-light radius of 0.3 arcseconds.

Fast/Wide Limit: The final two lines in the table give magnitude limits achieved at 5σ in 55 seconds (with a single exposure). At this integration time, Roman can cover approximately 8 contiguous square degrees per hour in one spectral element, and slew-and-settle overheads slightly exceed integration time. There is little point considering faster survey speeds, because sensitivity drops rapidly for modest increases in survey speed at yet shorter integrations.

Both the notebook and the GUI require the user to specify the filter, zodiacal light contribution, type of source, fitting method, and signal to noise. In this notebook we will be doing exposure time calculations for point sources, and extended sources with half-light radii of 0.2 arcsec or 0.3 arcsec.

The grism has constant dispersion and linearly increasing resolving power. The prism provides higher throughput and lower dispersion than the grism. The prism dispersion varies with wavelength and varies slightly with field angle.

Slew duration and the slew profile are determined by the slew length, the maximum allowed rate, and the maximum allowed acceleration. The maximum allowed rate is fixed (by observatory safing constraints). The maximum allowed acceleration is determined by the torque authority of the reaction wheels and the moment of inertia of the observatory. The torque is slightly different in the direction of the long axis of the WFI FoV than the short axis. For the purpose of estimating survey efficiency, slew times in the diagonal direction is a reasonable approximation.

Sharp changes in acceleration may excite structural or slosh oscillations that could adversely affect settling time. To avoid this, a shaped profile is computed onboard to avoid sharp acceleration discontinuities. More details can be found in Stoneking et al 2017.

Example visibility plots for two different target declinations are provided below. The Y-axis is the R.A, and the X-axis is the day of the year. The regions in green represent where/when the line of sight is in the Roman field-of-regard. A full set of visibility plots with declination increasing at intervals of 5 degrees is available here.

The plot on the left corresponds roughly to the Galactic center if one were to draw a horizontal line at R.A = 266 deg. The spring and fall visibility windows are where that line intersects the green regions.

This file contains two sets of columns for +/- values of Dec. = 1, 60, and 89 deg. The target R.A was fixed at +90 deg. By focusing on the month and day columns of the file, and the two pitch OK columns, a user may determine which days have the given R.A and Dec. in the field-of-regard. The roll columns give the S/C roll.

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Since February 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has gripped the globe1. In response, public health measures were implemented based on the best available data related to the presumed modes of transmission and based on recommendations for other respiratory viruses2,3,4.

Recent reports suggest that there is little evidence to support transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through contaminated surfaces13,14 and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently suggested that surfaces are not a significant mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-215. However, extensive surface contamination with SARS-CoV-2 by a symptomatic patient has been demonstrated in a hospital setting16 where a link was established between the presence of environmental contamination and the quantity of SARS-CoV-2 RNA, using cycle threshold (Ct), detected in the clinical sample, and day post-symptom onset and shedding of infectious SARS-CoV-2. Additional studies investigating shedding of infectious virus from COVID-19 patients consistently report that it is highest early in the course of infection17,18,19,20. It appears likely that patients early in the course of COVID-19 could more readily transmit and contaminate surfaces in the clinical and community setting, leading to an increased risk of virus transmission21. Our study was driven by the hypothesis that COVID-19 patients in the early stage of their illness would shed infectious SARS-CoV-2 in respiratory secretions and contaminate surfaces that can contribute to transmission of the virus. We conducted detailed virological assessments of infectious virus loads in COVID-19 patients at different stages of disease, assessing various clinical and environmental (fomite) samples taken from the hospital and community setting, to gain a further understanding of the potential modes of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and to explore the reasons why this virus is so contagious.

Core respiratory symptoms (any one of or a combination of cough, sore throat, nasal congestion/rhinorrhea, and dyspnea) were found at some point in the illness course in just over 85% of our 75 person cohort and almost 90% had at least 3 identified symptoms/signs compatible with an expanded list of COVID-19 compatible symptoms and signs.

Impact of sample timing on SARS-CoV-2 virus detection. The time post-onset was calculated from interviews and/or chart review. (a) Virus titer where it could be detected. (b) All the Ct measurements acquired over the study. In most cases, the capacity to detect virus drops off precipitously about a week after case onset (blue data points). However, both RNA (lower panel) and PFU (upper panel) are detected for many days or weeks later where the patient is immunocompromised (red data points). Figure prepared using Prism v9.3 ( ).

Virulence testing in Syrian hamsters. Two of the virus specimens (56B and 72B) were plaque purified and expanded to higher titers with one passage. The two stocks were then used to inoculate four groups of hamsters (4 per group) with the indicated doses of virus. Four control animals were also inoculated by the same intranasal route, with an equal volume (100 L total) of serum-free media. (a) Shows the weight change relative to the starting weight for the animals in each of the five groups. Error bars represent standard error of the mean. A nasal swab was collected from each animal on days 1, 3 and 6, post-inoculation, and assayed for virus by plaque assay and virus RNA by qPCR (b and c). Both virus specimens produced weight loss and high titers of intranasal virus were detected at days 1 and 3 post-infection. Characteristically the lower doses (14 PFU for 56B and 30 PFU for 72B) yielded the most virus on day 3 post-infection, whereas the higher doses induced the highest levels of infection immediately after challenge, on day 1. The RNA is more persistent than virus, and it could still be detected 6 days post-infection in all of the infected animals, whereas no virus could be detected at this date. The animals were euthanized at day 14. The dashed lines show the limits of virus and RNA detection (LOD) in nasal swabs. Figure prepared using Prism v9.3 ( ).

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