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This is a non-technical account of Brian Wansink, a food researcher, who has been accused of p-hacking, Continue reading
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This is a non-technical account of Brian Wansink, a food researcher, who has been accused of p-hacking, Continue reading
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This is a nice, easy to follow overview of how to use bits of R code within SPSS. Continue reading
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A comment about the phrase “trend towards efficiency” on the Statistical Consulting Section discussion board raised a lot of interesting commentary. The phrase refers to a setting where the p-value is not small enough to allow you to claim statistical significance, but still was close enough to 0.05 to be worth commenting on. Most of responses were fairly negative and stressed that we need to refuse to sign off on any report of publication using that phrase. I posted a response that differed from the others. Here’s the gist of what I said. Continue reading
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For the yearly evaluation for my part-time position in the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, I have had to prepare a list of accomplishments and goals for the upcoming year. I thought that I’d share this year’s list on my blog. Continue reading
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I heard about this from the UMKC Bioinformatics twitter feed. Google has a blog entry highlighting a new search feature they’ve developed, Dataset Search. It lets you find interesting data sets using standard Google search criteria. The system only works if people on the web provide reasonable documentation of their data sets. I’ve not had a chance to work with this yet, but it looks interesting. Continue reading
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This article was recommended at a talk I attended. The full title says it all. Continue reading
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is encouraging great use of electronic health record data to supplement the traditional randomized clinical trials. But you need to use care. Here is some guidance on what the FDA is recommending to industry. Continue reading
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This article was recommended at a talk I attended. The thesis is that we need to look at the electronic health record from the bottom up. Continue reading
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The FDA is encouraging new complex trial designs that are adaptive and/or Bayesian. This page describes a program where drug companies are encouraged to propose these designs and they publicly disclose the details so that others can learn from their successes (and failures). Continue reading
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If you want to learn cluster computing and you didn’t have easy access, you had two choices. You could simulate a cluster computer on your laptop, or you could buy time in the cloud. There’s a third approach, build your own cluster computer system using several Raspberry Pi computers. Continue reading