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More on the epidemiologists who other epidemiologists don’t trust

Web“But if we’re to blame some group for the severity of the pandemic, the blame should be squarely laid on the epidemiological **INSIDERS** who stubbornly refused to …

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Artificial Intelligence in U.S. Health Care Delivery

Web350 n engl j med 389;4 nejm.org July 27, 2023 The new england journal of medicine Figure 1. HealthˇCareˇDelivery Domain Examples of the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in …

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Understanding the “average treatment effect” number

WebIn statistics and econometrics there’s lots of talk about the average treatment effect. I’ve often been skeptical of the focus on the average treatment effect, for the …

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Public Opinion on Health Care Reform

WebOpinion is notoriously volatile on issues that are poorly defined in the public mind, and support of health care reform does not necessarily translate to support for any particular …

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Ethics in statistical practice and communication: Eight …

WebThe present article is an attempt to integrate procedural and methodological aspects of ethics in statistics. We organize our ideas around eight recommendations for statistical …

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Statistics as squid ink: How prominent researchers can get …

WebThis brings us to a familiar ethical dilemma of improper means used for the purpose of ostensibly worthy ends. We say “ostensibly” worthy because we don’t actually know if …

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New textbook, “Statistics for Health Data Science,” by Etzioni, …

WebThere is a larger issue here related to the disconnect between what many statisticians do regarding the methods the advocate and publish in statistics journals, and …

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What can we really learn from observational studies

WebThe empirical findings to date appear to be consistent with prior concerns about the accuracy of epidemiologic investigations7, including the suggestion that only large …

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What happened with HMOs

WebA couple of years ago I asked, What happened with HMOs? Back in the 1970s, I remember occasionally reading a newspaper or magazine article about this …

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What is spatial epidemiology, anyway

WebRelationships between areas of the physical environment, e.g. dispersal of dust and other pollutants through the air, movement of bacterial and viral pathogens via …

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Stop and frisk: What’s the problem

WebMoody, and Donald Haider-Harkel combine statistical evidence on tra c stops based on a sample of several thousand drivers in the Kansas City metropolitan area along with open …

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Overestimated health effects of air pollution Statistical Modeling

WebLast year I wrote a post, “Why the New Pollution Literature is Credible” . . . but I’m still guessing that the effects are being overestimated:. Since then, Vincent …

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Mitzi’s and my talks in Trieste 3 and 4 June 2024 (yes, they’ll be

WebGIST: Gibbs self-tuning for locally adaptive Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Bob Carpenter, Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Mathematics. I will present a novel …

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What can we learn from COVID burnout

WebBurnout has become a central theme of the COVID-19 pandemic, impacting essentially everyone in different ways, from those who were, and continue to be subject …

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thefacebook and mental health trends: Harvard and Suffolk …

WebMultiple available measures indicate worsening mental health among US teenagers. Prominent researchers, commentators, and news sources have attributed this …

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Healthcare spending and life expectancy: A comparison of graphs

WebYesterday I posted this graph, a parallel-coordinates plot showing health care spending and life expectancy in a sample of countries:. I remarked that a scatterplot …

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No, I don’t believe the claim that “Mothers negatively affected by

WebDesislava Petkova writes: An article in the Family section of the Guardian announced Mothers negatively affected by having three daughters and no sons, study …

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“Epidemiology and Biostatistics: competitive or complementary

WebI interpreted the question to ask “What is the conceptual distinction between Epidemiology and Biostatistics”. In my view, these fields of inquiry are complimentary: …

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How many patients do doctors kill by accident

WebPaul Kedrosky writes: There is a longstanding debate in the medical community about how many patients they kill by accident. There are many estimates, all …

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Another opportunity in MLB for Stan users: the Phillies are hiring

WebThe Philadelphia Phillies reached out to let us know they are looking to hire a “Lead or Senior Quantitative Analyst, Player Evaluation” for their Baseball Operations …

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Coronavirus and Simpson’s paradox: Oldsters are more likely to be

WebPost navigation Here’s why I don’t trust the Nudgelords . . . Measuring the information in an empirical prior Coronavirus and Simpson’s paradox: Oldsters are more …

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“Light Privilege

WebKevin Lewis points us to this article by Taylor Hargrove, which states:. Although skin color represents a particularly salient dimension of race, its consequences …

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Smoking and Covid Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and …

WebPaul Kedrosky wrote: This paper is getting passed around today, with its claim that there not only isn’t a causal relationship between smoking and COVID, but …

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Not eating sweet potatoes: Is that gonna kill me

WebStatistics, despite R.A. Fisher, proved useful in showing that smoking was harmful and not just a nuisance parameter. Among other contentions, he alleged that …

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