Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?
These are statistics&#x2F;math problems that 2 medical professionals I&#x27;m seeing are working on, not my own work.  But they got me curious.  FWIW I worked in &quot;data science&quot; as a software engineer for many years, and did some machine learning, so I have some adjacent experience, but I could use help conceptualizing the problems.<p>Does anyone know of any books or surveys about statistics and medicine, or specifically mechanics of the human body?<p>- One therapist is taking measurements of say your arm motion and making inferences about the motion of other muscles.  He does is very intuitively but wants to encode the knowledge in software.<p>- The other one has an oral appliance that has a few parameters that need to be adjusted for different geometries of the mouth and airway.<p>The problems aren&#x27;t that well posed which is why I&#x27;m looking for pointers to related materials, rather than specific solutions (although any ideas are welcome).  I appreciate replies here, and my e-mail is in my profile.  I asked a former colleague with a Ph.D. and biostats and he didn&#x27;t really know.  Although I guess biostats is often specifically related to genetics?  Or epidemiology?<p>I guess the other thing this makes me think of is software for Invisalign or Lasik, etc.  In fact I remember a former co-worker 10 years ago had actually worked on Lasik control software.  If anyone has pointers to knowledge in these areas I&#x27;m interested.