This is a nice, easy to follow overview of how to use bits of R code within SPSS. Continue reading
PMean: What to do about claims of borderline statistical significance
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
PMean: What I did in the last twelve months
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 accomplisments and goals for the upcoming year. I thought that I’d share this year’s list on my blog. Continue reading
Recommended: Making it easier to discover data sets
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
Recommended: False-Positive Psychology
This article was recommended at a talk I attended. The full title says it all. Continue reading
Recommended: Use of Electronic Health Record Data in Clinical Investigations. Guidance for Industry
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
Recommended: Next-generation phenotyping of electronic health records
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
Recommended: Complex Innovative Trial Designs Pilot Program
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
PMean: Super Pi, a group to teach cluster computing using the Raspberry Pi
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
Recommended: JupyterLab is Ready for Users
Jupyter is an integrated development environment that uses a notebook interface. It was originally developed for Python, but is now available for a variety of other languages, including my favorite, R. I attended a talk about Jupyter from one of the main developers, and after explaining what Jupyter is, he demonstrated JupyterLab. JupyterLab is a new IDE that uses the same structure and files as Jupyter. It looks to be very simple but also very powerful. Continue reading