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December 2004 (11 entries)
- Testing for side effects (December 29, 2004)
- Recommended web links for the month of December (December 28, 2004)
- Designing a questionnaire (December 24, 2004)
- Simpson's Paradox (December 22, 2004)
- Subgroup analysis (December 21, 2004)
- George Box Quote (December 20, 2004)
- Neyman bias (December 15, 2004)
- Prayer studies (December 13, 2004)
- Surromed and the DecisionSite S-Plus Server Solution (December 8, 2004)
- New in SPSS version 13.0 (December 7, 2004)
- Entrenched beliefs (December 1, 2004)
November 2004 (12 entries)
- Measuring heterogeneity in meta-analysis (November 29, 2004)
- Unequal sample sizes (November 24, 2004)
- Outcomes research (November 24, 2004)
- Can you recommend a good book? (November 24, 2004)
- Alternatives to equipoise (November 24, 2004)
- Discrepancy between univariate and multivariate models (November 12, 2004)
- Testing multinomial proportions (November 9, 2004)
- Confidence intervals for complex research designs (November 5, 2004)
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Research on therapies that have no known mechanism of action (November
4, 2004)
- Anecdotal information (November 2, 2004)
- Speech: Deaf chairs, lost cake recipes, and a letter from Maria. (November 2, 2004)
- Unblinding at the end of a study (November 1, 2004)
October 2004 (2 entries)
There are only two entries this month because of all the time I took off from work. My wife and I just adopted a little boy from Russia. You can find details about this on my personal update page.
September 2004 (13 entries)
- Top six mistakes in teaching EBM (September 24, 2004)
- Craniosacral therapy (September 24, 2004)
- Speech: Is the randomized trial the gold standard for research? (September 23, 2004)
- Multiple degree of freedom tests (September 22, 2004)
- Sample size for an ordinal outcome (September 22, 2004)
- Design and analysis of pilot studies (September 17, 2004)
- What is the best statistical model? (September 17, 2004)
- Rates versus proportions (September 15, 2004)
- Printer friendly versions of web pages (September 13, 2004)
- Seminar notes: International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (September 10, 2004)
- What's a good value for Cronbach's Alpha? (September 9, 2004)
- Full-Body Computed Tomography Screening (September 6, 2004)
- Seminar notes: Nitty Gritty NIH (September 3, 2004)
August 2004 (12 entries)
- More on information theory models (August 31, 2004)
- Report cards (August 27, 2004)
- Statistical software (August 25, 2004)
- Free Full Text on the Web (August 24, 2004)
- Selection bias (August 24, 2004)
- Nicholas Zhenya Simon (August 24, 2004)
- Weblog entries from the 2004 JSM (August 7-11, 2004)
- Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables (August 5, 2004)
- Unbalanced sample sizes for evaluating a diagnostic test (August 5, 2004)
- Speech: So you want to volunteer for a research study? (August 4, 2004)
- Searching for bimodality (August 4, 2004)
- Seminar notes: Secondary Uses of Data (August 2, 2004)
July 2004 (21 entries)
- Submitting a research protocol to the IRB (July 29, 2004)
- Statalist (July 29, 2004)
- Breaking the blind (July 29, 2004)
- Evaluating the AUC for an ROC curve (July 27, 2004)
- Random identification numbers (July 26, 2004)
- Is there a mechanism? (July 23, 2004)
- Sample size calculations in studies with a baseline (July 23, 2004)
- Retrospective chart reviews and IRB approval (July 21, 2004)
- Conflict of interest (July 20, 2004)
- Aliasing patterns (July 19, 2004)
- Adaptive randomization (July 15, 2004)
- Randomization test (July 14, 2004)
- Provisional means algorithm (July 9, 2004)
- Recent updates (July 8, 2004)
- Confidence intervals for proportions (July 8, 2004)
- Planning a qualitative research study (July 6, 2004)
- Bibliography of resources for qualitative research studies (July 6, 2004)
- Sample size for a diagnostic test (July 5, 2004)
- Early stopping in an animal experiment (July 1, 2004)
- Early Stopping Bibliography (July 1, 2004)
- I hate PowerPoint talk (July 1, 2004)
June 2004 (13 entries)
- In vitro fertilization prayer study (June 29, 2004)
- Nonlinear Least Squares in S-plus and R (June 28, 2004)
- Excluding placebo responders (June 25, 2004)
- Publication bias (June 25, 2004)
- Pap smears for women without a cervix (June 24, 2004)
- The impact of XML on Statistics (June 23, 2004)
- Missing values (June 22, 2004)
- S+ArrayAnalyzer web seminar (June 22, 2004)
- McNemar's Test (June 17, 2004)
- Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (June 15, 2004)
- Data Mining with Clementine (June 15, 2004)
- Statistical consulting (June 14, 2004)
- Categorical variables in a logistic regression model (June 1, 2004)
May 2004 (14 entries)
- Health effects of smoking (May 31, 2004)
- Prostate Specific Antigen testing (May 31, 2004)
- Monte Carlo methods (May 31, 2004)
- Sample size for cluster randomized trials (May 27, 2004)
- Analyzing percentage data (May 24, 2004)
- Sample size calculation example (May 20, 2004)
- I hate PowerPoint (May 19, 2004)
- Goodness of fit test (May 18, 2004)
- Sample size for a survival data model (May 13, 2004)
- Advanced SPSS methods (May 12, 2004)
- Information theory models (May 11, 2004)
- Acuity microarray analysis software (May 6, 2004)
- Overlooking one's own flaws (May 3, 2004)
April 2004 (9 entries)
- Degrees of freedom (April 15, 2004)
- The Wikipedia (April 15, 2004)
- Focus groups and qualitative research (April 13, 2004)
- Clinically trivial effects (April 12, 2004)
- One-tailed p-values (April 12, 2004)
- A serious problem of publication bias (April 9, 2004)
- Interactions in logistic regression (April 8, 2004)
- Criticisms of randomized clinical trials (April 7, 2004)
- Temporality of causes (April 7, 2004)
March 2004 (6 entries)
- Constraints on randomization (March 23, 2004)
- Evidence Based lessons learned from Cardiology (March 18, 2004)
- Microarray data analysis (March 18, 2004)
- EM Algorithm (March 15, 2004)
- Quality control in the laboratory (March 9, 2004)
- Parametric versus nonparametric tests (March 9, 2004)
February 2004 (5 entries)
- Conflict of Interest (February 25, 2004)
- Evidence Based Medicine and Ethics (February 20, 2004)
- Number Needed to Harm Examples (February 18, 2004)
- Enumerative and Analytic Studies (February 5, 2004)
- Educational Resources (February 3, 2004)
(no entries in the weblog prior to February 3, 2004)
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