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Weblog entries for June 2008
- Stats: Bootstrap estimates of the standard error (June 20, 2008).
- Stats: Running R on a web server (June 17, 2008).
- Stats: Can I run a quantitative analysis on this data? (June 17, 2008).
- Stats: Criticism of random effects in a meta-analysis (June 14, 2008).
- Stats: Modeling a declining count variable (June 14, 2008).
- Stats: Eliciting a prior distribution for rejection/refusal rates (June 7, 2008).
- Stats: When does heterogeneity become a concern? (June 5, 2008).
What I am reading in June 2008
- Email Address Munger/Email Address Encoder.
- The role of clinical uncertainty in treatment decisions for diabetic patients with uncontrolled blood pressure.
- The "3T's" road map to transform US health care: the "how" of high-quality care.
- How much loss to follow-up is acceptable in long-term randomised trials and prospective studies?
- If we're so different, why do we keep overlapping? When 1 plus 1 doesn't make 2.
Weblog entries for May 2008 (6 entries)
- Stats: How wide can you make a line of your web page? (May 27, 2008).
- Stats: A simple Bayesian model for exponential accrual times (May 26, 2008).
- Stats: A short biography that can be used as an introduction (May 9, 2008).
- Stats: Why does a Bayesian approach make sense for monitoring accrual? (May 8, 2008).
- Stats: Slipped deadlines and sample size shortfalls in a random sample of research studies (May 7, 2008).
- Stats: Monitoring refusals and exclusions in a clinical trial (May 1, 2008).
What I was reading in May 2008
- How to interpret figures in reports of clinical trials.
- What constitutes a "clinical trial"?: A survey of oncology professionals.
- Pediatric Drug Studies Seen as Obligation of Other Parents' Kids.
- Overconfidence as a Cause of Diagnostic Error in Medicine.
- Missed and delayed diagnoses in the ambulatory setting.
Weblog entries for April 2008 (11 entries)
- Stats: Directions to my new office (April 25, 2008).
- Stats: Nomination for the Kreamer Award for Research Excellence (April 24, 2008).
- Stats: Upcoming topics in Poisson regression (April 24, 2008).
- Stats: I hate bad research examples (April 23, 2008).
- Stats: Evidence Based Medicine for patients (April 23, 2008)
- Stats: A brief overview of instrumental variables (April 14, 2008).
- Stats: What does one-third of the way through a study mean? (April 6, 2008).
- Stats: A simple math error (April 6, 2008).
- Stats: Calculating statistics on whole numbers (April 4, 2008).
- Stats: An alternative to the p-value (April 3, 2008).
- Stats: Why we need case studies of research ethics in graphic novel format (April 3, 2008).
What I was reading in April 2008
- GRADE: an emerging consensus on rating quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.
- GRADE working group.
- How do we assess the quality of information?
- Negative Consequences of Dichotomizing Continuous Predictor Variables.
- StatLinks: Applied statistics, data analysis, and visualization
- Instrumental variable.
- Instrumental Variable Estimation.
- Blind Prejudice - "Hard" scientists believe they are immune to bias.
- Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? Transfer and Sale of De-Identified Patient Data.
- An alternative to null-hypothesis significance tests.
- Database of mRNA gene expression profiles of multiple human organs.
- The use of bootstrap methods for analysing Health-Related Quality of Life outcomes (particularly the SF-36).
- Sample size and power estimation for studies with health related quality of life outcomes: a comparison of four methods using the SF-36.
Weblog entries for March 2008 ( 8 entries)
- Stats: What sort of statistical training is needed for basic scientists? (March 29, 2008)
- Stats: Statistics for Boards (March 25, 2008)
- Stats: Presenting unadjusted and adjusted estimates side by side (March 24, 2008)
- Stats: When a client asks for a bad analysis (March 24, 2008)
- Stats: ROC curve for an imperfect gold standard (March 12, 2008)
- Stats: Simplifying repeated measurements (March 12, 2008)
- Stats: Losing web pages in the mass of information (March 5, 2008)
- Stats: Calculating NNT for observational studies (March 3, 2008)
What I was reading in March 2008 (12 entries)
- AP Statistics Module. Sampling and Experimentation: Planning and Conducting a Study. (PDF).
- The Zoo of Loglinear Analysis.
- Methods for confidence interval estimation of a ratio parameter with application to location quotients.
- Confidence Intervals Involving Data to Which a Logarithmic Transformation Has Been Applied.
- Scientific Papers and Presentations (PDF).
- DM Review.
- The History of Human Medical Experimentation in the United States.
- Peer-reviewed publication of clinical trials completed for pediatric exclusivity.
- Trial Registration at ClinicalTrials.gov between May and October 2005.
- AGREE (Appraisal of Guidelines REsearch Evaluation) Collaboration.
- Correspondence Analysis.
- Simpson's Paradox, Lord's Paradox, and Suppression Effects are the same phenomenon - the reversal paradox.
Weblog entries for February 2008 (3 entries)
- Stats: Assessing the assumption of an exponential distribution (February 25, 2008)
- Stats: What is a critical value? (February 22, 2008)
- Stats: Multiple methods for computing percentiles (February 13, 2008)
What I was reading in February 2008 (3 entries)
- Accuracy of Statistical Packages.
- Absolute and relative truth in clinical trials.
- Cluster without fluster: The effect of correlated outcomes on inference in randomized clinical trials.
Weblog entries for January 2008 (12 entries)
- Stats: Does prevalence affect sensitivity (January 31, 2008)
- Stats: A simple example of a Kaplan-Meier curve (January 24, 2008)
- Stats: How do you analyze safety data (January 22, 2008)
- Stats: Finding only the important studies (January 21, 2008)
- Stats: What have you changed your mind about (January 18, 2008)
- Stats: ASA Pressroom credentials (January 11, 2008) (coming soon!)
- Stats: Too much power and precision? (January 9, 2008)
- Stats: The post-modern assault on evidence-based medicine, part 3 (January 7, 2008)
- Stats: High altitude effects on athletic performance (January 5, 2008)
- Stats: What statistic should I use when? (January 4, 2008)
- Stats: Type III error (January 3, 2008)
- Stats: New format for articles, books, and websites (January 1, 2008)
What I was reading in January 2008 (16 entries)
- Australasian Data and Story Library (OzDASL).
- Bioethics Issues.
- A Brief Guide to Questionnaire Development.
- Comparative response to a survey executed by post, email, & web form.
- CONSORT for Reporting Randomized Controlled Trials in Journal and Conference Abstracts: Explanation and Elaboration.
- The Data and Story Library (DASL).
- The Hawthorne effect: a note
- Information Is Not Entropy, Information Is Not Uncertainty!
- Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) Data Archive.
- Multiple Comparisons with Repeated Measures.
- The Mysterious Placebo.
- Narrative evidence based medicine.
- The Placebo Effect.
- Prospective, randomized evaluation of a personal digital assistant-based research tool in the emergency department.
- The XBabelPhish MAGE-ML and XML Translator.
- Yes, Polling Works.
- In the Era of Systematic Reviews, Does the Size of an Individual Trial Still Matter.
- Type I and type II errors
- Background frequencies for residue variability estimates: BLOSUM revisited
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