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I am applying to a variety of jobs and some of them ask for a statement about teaching or research. Here’s something I wrote where the employer asked for a combination of the two. Continue reading
Category Archives: Statistics
PMean: My research interests, one page limit
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Another place asked for my research interests and asked me to keep it to a single page. Gack! I do not have an easy time keeping withing page limits. Here’s what I wrote. It won’t be one page on my blog, because of formatting changes, of course. Continue reading
PMean: My research interests
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I’ve been applying for a variety of jobs, and one of them asked for a statement on my research interests. I tried to emphasize the collaborative nature of my research. Here’s what I wrote. Continue reading
PMean: Developing an interdisciplinary research program
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I’ve been applying for a variety of jobs, and one of them asked for a statement on how I would develop an interdisciplinary research program. It’s fun to write these, and I thought I’d share what I wrote with you all. Continue reading
Recommended: To combat physician burnout and improve care, fix the electronic health record
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This article is a nice counterbalance to all the glowing reports about how moving to the electronic health record is going to revolutionize health care. This effort certainly has value, but it comes at a cost. The article talks about the improvements needed to the crude 1990s interface and how to avoid overburdening the medical record with extraneous data. Continue reading
PMean: Starting a heron-i2b2-analytics repository
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I am working on a CTSA grant to develop repeatable downstream pipelines that directly access i2b2 and CDM. In order to promote this work and encourage others to participate, I was given a repository site on github, kumc-bmi/heron-i2b2-analytics. Right now, it is just a shell, but here’s what I want to do with it, short term and long term. Continue reading
PMean: Using the transpose procedure in SAS
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A couple of my students are having difficulty with restructuring data sets in SAS. This is not surprising. Restructuring is very important, but not so easy. I decided to run a few simple examples of PROC TRANSPOSE to help clarify things. Here is the code and output. Continue reading
PMean: And the least important variable is…
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I heard a story a long time ago, and I don’t remember who told it to me and I’m probably getting all the details wrong, but I wanted to try to recreate the story from memory because it illustrates one of the perils of blind reliance on statistical models to identify “important” variables. Continue reading
PMean: Recommended format for homework assignments
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I’m teaching a couple of classes, Introduction to R and Introduction to SAS, and I’m finding that students will turn in homework a variety of different ways. I’m fine with this up to a point, but I think that I should encourage a simple uniform approach, because out in the real world, your boss or your clients will not appreciate a haphazard and disorganized approach. Here’s a suggested format for homework assignments that will (hopefully) get you in the practice of turning into things in an organized fashion. Continue reading
PMean: Next stop, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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I’m working part-time on a research grant and I want to publish some of the work I’ve done on this grant. The title of the paper tentatively is “Validating elastic net generated electronic health record breast cancer phenotypes against hospital tumor registries: a case control study.” My co-authors are Dan Connolly and Russ Waitman. I want to summarize the history of the effort so far and why I am considering the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making as the next place to submit the article. Continue reading