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Archive 2006, 200 entries
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December 2006 (11 entries)
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Stats: What percentage of medical decisions are based on good
evidence? (December 29, 2006)
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Stats: Be sure to account for dropouts in your sample size
calculation (December 29, 2006)
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Stats: Cherry picking the literature (December 20, 2006)
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Stats: Unusual advice about control charts (December 18, 2006)
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Stats: Should (Can?) Statistical Consultants, be
Independent? (December 14, 2006)
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Stats: Using focus groups to bridge the gap between research and
practice (December 14, 2006)
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Stats: Evidence-based development of medical guidelines (December
13, 2006)
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Stats: Mathematical and statistical challenges (December 13, 2006)
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Stats: Perfect isn't quite good enough (December 12, 2006)
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Stats: PharmaIQ talks (December 6, 2006)
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Stats: When are two events worrisome? (December 4, 2006)
November 2006 (15 entries)
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Stats: Manipulation of peer-review publications by
pharmaceutical companies (November 21, 2006)
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Stats: A simple Bayesian model for accrual (November 17, 2006)
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Stats: The tension between scientific validity and ethical
concerns (November 17, 2006)
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Stats: The complexities of having a variable number of
measures per patient (November 16, 2006)
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Stats: Fitting a quadratic regression model (November 15, 2006)
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Stats: The danger of using humor on a web page (November 14, 2006)
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Stats: Incorporating risk factors into diagnostic test
calculations (November 9, 2006)
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Stats: Technical Articles and Reports by David Heiser (November 7,
2006)
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Stats: Rebutting an expert reviewer (November 6, 2006)
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Stats: Medline is a very busy place (November 6, 2006)
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Stats: Materials for Signal Detection and Data Mining
Strategies conference (November 6, 2006)
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Stats: Therapeutic orphans (November 3, 2006)
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Stats: Statistical concerns in research studies
involving children (November 2, 2006)
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Stats: Additions and improvements to my web pages (November
2, 2006)
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Stats: A plea for open mindedness (November 2, 2006)
October 2006 (18 entries)
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Stats: Parametric tests for a ratio (October 27, 2006)
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Stats: Searching for pediatric articles on Medline
(October 26, 2006)
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Stats: Adjusting a variable for age and sex (October 26,
2006)
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Stats: I wasn't making up data, I was imputing! (October 25, 2006)
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Stats: Is a 10% shortfall in sample size critical? (October 23,
2006)
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Stats: A simple example of a mixed linear regression model
(October 18 ,2006)
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Stats: Academic freedom and the
Institutional Review Board (October 17, 2006)
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Stats: Ethical concerns about research
in children (October 17, 2006)
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Stats: Case studies for differences in
research in children (October 16, 2006)
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Stats: Mathematical derivation of the odds form of Bayes
theorem (October 16, 2006)
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Stats: Differences between children and
adults (October 13, 2006)
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Stats: Frank Harrell's Philosophy of Biostatistics (Teaching
resources, Internet, October 10, 2006)
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Stats: My ten favorite books, #8 (March 24,
2006)
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Stats: Calculations involving diagnostic
tests using open source abstracts (October 5, 2006)
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Stats: Book reviews for Statistical Evidence (October 5,
2006)
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Stats: Ethics concerns about a placebo run-in
(October 4, 2006)
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Stats: Wikipedia entry on sample (October 2, 2006)
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Stats: My second grant, part 3 (Model, Quality, October 2, 2006)
September 2006 (15 entries)
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Stats: Improvements to weblog categories (September
25, 2006)
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Stats: Is my confidence interval too wide?
(September 21, 2006)
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Stats: Two talks for PharmaIQ (September 19,
2006)
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Stats: Resources for the use of Statistical
Process Control in Healthcare (September 15, 2006)
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Stats: Special issues for research
involving children (September 15, 2006)
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Stats: Pharmacogenetics Research Network (September
14, 2006)
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Stats: Top ten studies in EBM, Part 4 (September 14, 2006)
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Stats: Email discussion groups (September 13, 2006)
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Stats: My second grant, part 2 (Model, Quality, September 13,
2006)
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Stats: Ambiguous nature of the word "risk" (September 13, 2006)
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Stats: Graphics options in R (September 12, 2006)
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Stats: Bernadine Healy weighs in on EBM (September 11, 2006)
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Stats: Postmodern thought and evidence based medicine (September
7, 2006)
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Stats: Rules for rounding numbers (September 7,
2006)
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Stats: Continuous monitoring of the
number needed to harm (September 2, 2006)
August 2006 (11 entries)
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Stats: Changing page breaks in SPSS (August 31, 2006, Model,
Software)
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Stats: More on the Wikipedia entry on Binomial Confidence
Interval (August 29, 2006)
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Stats: Citing statistical software in research papers (August 25,
2006)
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Stats: More on the Wikipedia entry on Binomial Confidence
Interval (August 22, 2006)
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Stats: Wikipedia entry on Binomial Confidence Interval (August 21,
2006)
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Stats: Quality control humor (August 20, 2006, Model, Quality)
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Stats: An exact confidence interval for a binomial proportion
(August 18, 2006)
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Stats: More than one thousand web pages now available on my site
(August 16, 2006, Administrative details)
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Stats: A clumsy attempt at anonymization (August 15, 2006,
Category: Privacy concerns)
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Stats: American Statistical Association Traveling Course committee
(August 15, 2006)
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Stats: Sales figures for Statistical Evidence in
Medical Trials (August 2, 2006)
July 2006 (10 entries)
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Stats: R libraries for sample size justification (July 28, 2006,
Category: Sample size justification)
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Stats: Using a colloquial tone in a grant application (July 25,
2006, Plan, Grant)
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Stats: My second grant (July 26, 2006, Model, Quality)
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Stats: Selecting randomly from a list (July 18, 2006, Plan,
Randomization)
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Stats: Questions a volunteer should ask before participating in
a clinical trial (July 18, 2006, Ethics, Informed consent)
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Stats: Initial work on the KCALSI grant (July 17, 2006, Model, Quality)
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Stats: Fraudulent images in research (July 12, 2006, Evidence,
Corroboration)
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Stats: When can a conservative trust a liberal information source
(and vice versa) (July 10, 2006, Evidence, Corroboration)
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Stats: Possible sources of funding for my grant (July 6, 2006,
Model, Quality control)
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Stats: Stopping rules for a Data Safety Monitoring Plan (July 5,
2006, Ethics, Early Stopping)
June 2006 (25 entries)
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Stats: Early detection of accrual problems in clinical trials
(June 30, 2006, Model, Quality control)
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Stats: Some resources for Analysis of Means (June 30, 2006, Model,
Quality control)
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Stats: What is block randomization (June 30, 2006, Plan,
Randomization)
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Stats: Likelihood software for clinical trials (June 29, 2006,
Model, Software)
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Stats: The problem with ranking ordinal scales (June 29, 2006,
Model, Ordinal data)
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Stats: Resources for Item Response Theory (June 28, 2006, Model,
Software)
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Stats: Colors for R graphs (June 28, 2006)
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Stats: Research on the web (June 27, 2006)
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Stats: More on propensity score models (June 26, 2006, Model,
Propensity score)
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Stats: Slash and burn models (June 26, 2006, Model, Logistic
regression)
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Stats: Using a charge of fraud to achieve a political end (June 23,
2006, Evidence, Corroboration)
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Stats: Withholding Personal Health Information from a patient (June
20, 2006, Ethics, Privacy)
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Stats: Auditing for data entry errors (June 20, 2006)
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Stats: Applications of the CUSUM chart (June 20, 2006, Model, Quality)
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Stats: Philosophy of teaching (June 20, 2006)
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Stats: Putting a human face on Evidence Based Medicine (June 20, 2006)
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Stats: Ethics and the fiduciary obligation (June 19, 2006,
Ethics, Overview)
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Stats: (Seminar notes) Confidence intervals for a variance ratio
(June 17, 2006)
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Stats: (Seminar notes) Adjustments for multiple comparisons
(June 17, 2006)
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Stats: (Seminar notes) Missing values in a dose response model (June
17, 2006)
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Stats: (Seminar notes) Issues in the analysis of mixed linear models
(June 17, 2006, Model, Mixed)
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Stats: (Seminar notes) Working with molecular biologists (June
17, 2006)
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Stats: New entry in the Chance Wiki (June 7, 2006)
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Stats: An amusing correlation (June 5, 2006, Model, Linear
regression)
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Stats: Seminar on control charts and adverse events (June 5, 2006,
Model, Quality)
May 2006 (19 entries)
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Stats: Why do we need research? (May 31, 2006)
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Stats: Methods for haplotype analysis (May 31, 2006, Model,
Large scale)
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Stats: Can the p-value actually equal 1.0? (May 30, 2006, Evidence,
Interpreting numbers)
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Stats: Monitoring accrual rates (May 30, 2006, Model, Quality)
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Stats: Relationship between the standard deviation and the sample
size (May 26, 2006)
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Stats: Upcoming talks about control charts (May 25, 2006, Model,
Quality)
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Stats: You won't have Steve Simon to kick around anymore (May 24, 2006,
General)
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Stats: Using APR-DRGs for risk adjustment (May 24, 2006, Evidence, Internal
validity)
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Stats: Another regular expression tip (May 23, 2006)
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Stats: Lost files (May 23, 2006)
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Stats: Using regular expressions to insert line breaks (May 18,
2006) (Model, Data management)
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Stats: Interesting stuff for the month of May (May 30, 2006)
(Teaching resources, General)
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Stats: Searching high level sources first (May 17, 2006, Evidence,
Searching)
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Stats: No tolerance for ambiguity (May 10, 2006)
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Stats: Using a web site to promote your book (May 10, 2006,
Administrative details)
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Stats: Always ask why (May 8, 2006)
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Stats: Eighteenth Annual Applied Statistics in Agriculture
Conference (May 4, 2006)
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Stats: Data mining and drug safety (May 4, 2006, Model, Quality control)
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Stats: What constitutes a conflict of interest? (May 4, 2006,
Evidence, Corroboration)
April 2006 (16 entries)
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Stats: A simple application of propensity scores (April 26, 2006,
Model, Linear regression)
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Stats: I want to write a grant (April 25, 2006, Model, Quality control)
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Stats: Surviving Statistical Spitting Matches (April 25, 2006)
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Stats: Giving credit where credit is due (April 19, 2006,
Administrative details)
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Stats: Abstainer errors in study of alcohol abuse (April 19, 2006,
Evidence, Internal validity)
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Stats: Univariate Model Based Clustering (April 18, 2006,
Model, Large scale)
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Stats: Placing the symbol X-bar in a document (April 17, 2006, Teaching
resources, General)
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Stats: Topic list is complete! (April 17, 2006, Administrative
details)
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Stats: Three new koans (April 17, 2006)
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Stats: Interesting websites, publications and quotes for the month
of April (updated April 12, 2006)
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Stats: The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (April 11, 2006,
Model, Large scale)
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Stats: Examples of Pareto charts (April 5, 2006, Model, Quality)
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Stats: Interpretation of the correlation coefficient (April 4,
2006, Model, Linear regression)
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Stats: Can you use the coefficient of determination for
categorical variables (April 4, 2006, Model, Linear regression)
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Stats: When is a co-authorship warranted? (April 4, 2006, Ethics,
Overview)
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Stats: What is a beta coefficient? (April 4, 2006, Model, Linear
regression)
March 2006 (23 entries)
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Stats: How many charts should I pull? (March 30, 2006, Category:
Sample size justification)
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Stats: Contradictory research (March 30, 2006)
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Stats: Articles on Bayesian data analysis (March 30, 2006, Model,
Bayesian)
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Stats: Small sample size, yet again (March 29, 2006, Category: Sample
size justification)
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Stats: New koan page (March 29, 2006, Administrative details)
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Stats: The role of a statistician on an IRB (March 29, 2006,
Ethics, Overview)
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Stats: Interesting websites, publications and quotes for the month
of March (updated March 29, 2006)
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Stats: Statistical koan #4 (March 26, 2006)
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Stats: Examples of a fishbone diagram (March 24, 2006, Model,
Quality control)
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Stats: My ten favorite books, #9 (March 24, 2006, Teaching
resources, Books)
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Stats: Web seminar, Creating More Effective Graphics (March 24,
2006)
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Stats: My ten favorite books, #10 (March 17, 2006, Teaching
resources, Books)
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Stats: Integrating internal and external evidence (March 17,
2006)
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Stats: An introductory book on SPSS (March 16, 2006, Teaching resources,
Books)
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Stats: Statistical koan #3 (March 16, 2006, Teaching resources,
General)
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Stats: Post hoc comparisons (March 15, 2006)
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Stats: Software for structural equations models (March 14, 2006, Model,
Software)
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Stats: Poisson regression? Maybe not! (March 10, 2006, Model,
Poisson regression)
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Stats: Propensity scores (March 10, 2006, Model, Linear
regression)
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Stats: More on the Emily Rosa experiment (March 10, 2006)
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Stats: What is construct validity? (March 8, 2006, Model,
Agreement)
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Stats: Best EBM articles in 2005 (March 6, 2006)
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Stats: Waiver of informed consent (March 3, 2006, Ethics,
Informed consent)
February 2006 (12 entries)
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Stats: Statistical koan #2 (Feburary 28, 2006, Teaching resources,
General)
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Stats: Statistical koans (February 27, 2006, Teaching resources,
General)
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Stats: Three dimensional bar and pie charts (February 21,
2006)
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Stats: Difficulties in generalizing research (February 15,
2006, Evidence, External validity)
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Stats: Meta-analysis and diagnostic tests (February 14,
2006, Model, Meta-analysis)
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Stats: Checking a Chi-square test (February 13, 2006, Model,
Logistic regression)
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Stats: What makes a good book? A sense of humor. (February 13, 2006,
Teaching resources, Books)
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Stats: Interesting websites, publications and quotes for the month
of February (February 13, 2006)
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Stats: Reporting serious adverse events (updated February 3, 2006,
Model, Quality control)
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Stats: Economic evaluations (February 2, 2006, Model, Linear
regression)
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Stats: An Ensembl search (February 1, 2006)
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Stats: Learning more about control charts (February 1, 2006, Model,
Quality)
January 2006 (25 entries)
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How do the various clustering algorithms work? (January 31,
2006)
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Recent developments in searching for evidence (January 31, 2006,
Evidence, Searching)
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More lessons learned the hard way (January 31, 2006)
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Stats: Interesting web sites, publications, and quotes for the
month of January (January 31, 2006)
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Real-life examples of survey mistakes (January 31, 2006, Plan,
Survey)
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A novel diagnostic test (January 26, 2006, Model, Diagnostic test)
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A simple function for a Biplot in R (January 24, 2006, Model, Large
scale)
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Machine Learning tools in R (January 24, 2006)
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Randomization tests for paired data (January 24, 2006, Model,
Randomization)
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Conditional Frailty Models (January 20, 2006)
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Multicollinearity is not a violation of assumptions (January 20,
2006, Model, Linear regression)
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Excluding zip codes with insufficient data (January 19, 2006,
Model, Descriptive)
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Davis Balestracci seminar (January 19, 2006, Model, Quality
control)
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Extending SPSS capabilities using Python (January 19, 2006, Model,
Software)
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The Journal of Statistical Software (January 18, 2006, Model,
Software)
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Categorizing my weblog entries (January 18, 2006, Administrative
details)
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Characterizing reasons for refusal (January 17, 2006, Evidence,
External validity)
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Handling dropouts in NNT/NNH calculations (January 16, 2006,
Evidence, Interpreting numbers)
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Haplotype analysis (January 13, 2006, Model, Genetic data)
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First peek at the cover of my new book (January 12, 2006, General)
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Where to go, where to go (January 11, 2006, General)
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Extreme value distribution (January 9, 2006, Model, Theory)
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An entry in Chance News (January 5, 2006, General)
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The past year in my weblog (January 4, 2006, Administrative details)
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Transformation of a Likert scale (January 4, 2006)
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