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Archive 2004, 118 entries

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December 2004 (11 entries)

• Testing for side effects (2004-12-29)
• Recommended web links for the month of December (2004-12-28)
• Designing a questionnaire (2004-12-24)
• Simpson's Paradox (2004-12-22)
• Subgroup analysis (2004-12-21)
• George Box Quote (2004-12-20)
• Neyman bias (2004-12-15)
• Prayer studies (2004-12-13)
• Surromed and the DecisionSite S-Plus Server Solution (2004-12-08)
• New in SPSS version 13.0 (2004-12-07)
• Entrenched beliefs (2004-12-01)

November 2004 (12 entries)

• Measuring heterogeneity in meta-analysis (2004-11-29)
• Unequal sample sizes (2004-11-24)
• Outcomes research (2004-11-24)
• Can you recommend a good book? (2004-11-24)
• Alternatives to equipoise (2004-11-24)
• Discrepancy between univariate and multivariate models (2004-11-12)
• Testing multinomial proportions (2004-11-09)
• Confidence intervals for complex research designs (2004-11-05)
• Research on therapies that have no known mechanism of action (2004-11-04)
• Anecdotal information (2004-11-02)
• Speech: Deaf chairs, lost cake recipes, and a letter from Maria. (2004-11-02)
• Unblinding at the end of a study (2004-11-01)

October 2004 (2 entries)

There are only two entries this month because of all the time I took off from work. My wife and I just adopted a little boy from Russia. You can find details about this on my personal update page.

• Automating statistical analyses (2004-10-25)
• Unnecessary diagnostic tests (2004-10-25)

September 2004 (13 entries)

• Top six mistakes in teaching EBM (2004-09-24)
• Craniosacral therapy (2004-09-24)
• Speech: Is the randomized trial the gold standard for research? (2004-09-23)
• Multiple degree of freedom tests (2004-09-22)
• Sample size for an ordinal outcome (2004-09-22)
• Design and analysis of pilot studies (2004-09-17)
• What is the best statistical model? (2004-09-17)
• Rates versus proportions (2004-09-15)
• Printer friendly versions of web pages (2004-09-13)
• Seminar notes: International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (2004-09-10)
• What's a good value for Cronbach's Alpha? (2004-09-09)
• Full-Body Computed Tomography Screening (2004-09-06)
• Seminar notes: Nitty Gritty NIH (2004-09-03)

August 2004 (12 entries)

• More on information theory models (2004-08-31)
• Report cards (2004-08-27)
• Statistical software (2004-08-25)
• Free Full Text on the Web (2004-08-24)
• Selection bias (2004-08-24)
• Nicholas Zhenya Simon (2004-08-24)
• Weblog entries from the 2004 JSM (2004-08-7-11)
• Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables (2004-08-05)
• Unbalanced sample sizes for evaluating a diagnostic test (2004-08-05)
• Speech: So you want to volunteer for a research study? (2004-08-04)
• Searching for bimodality (2004-08-04)
• Seminar notes: Secondary Uses of Data (2004-08-02)

July 2004 (21 entries)

• Submitting a research protocol to the IRB (2004-07-29)
• Statalist (2004-07-29)
• Breaking the blind (2004-07-29)
• Evaluating the AUC for an ROC curve (2004-07-27)
• Random identification numbers (2004-07-26)
• Is there a mechanism? (2004-07-23)
• Sample size calculations in studies with a baseline (2004-07-23)
• Retrospective chart reviews and IRB approval (2004-07-21)
• Conflict of interest (2004-07-20)
• Aliasing patterns (2004-07-19)
• Adaptive randomization (2004-07-15)
• Randomization test (2004-07-14)
• Provisional means algorithm (2004-07-09)
• Recent updates (2004-07-08)
• Confidence intervals for proportions (2004-07-08)
• Planning a qualitative research study (2004-07-06)
• Bibliography of resources for qualitative research studies (2004-07-06)
• Sample size for a diagnostic test (2004-07-05)
• Early stopping in an animal experiment (2004-07-01)
• Early Stopping Bibliography (2004-07-01)
• I hate PowerPoint talk (2004-07-01)

June 2004 (13 entries)

• In vitro fertilization prayer study (2004-06-29)
• Nonlinear Least Squares in S-plus and R (2004-06-28)
• Excluding placebo responders (2004-06-25)
• Publication bias (2004-06-25)
• Pap smears for women without a cervix (2004-06-24)
• The impact of XML on Statistics (2004-06-23)
• Missing values (2004-06-22)
• S+ArrayAnalyzer web seminar (2004-06-22)
• McNemar's Test (2004-06-17)
• Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2004-06-15)
• Data Mining with Clementine (2004-06-15)
• Statistical consulting (2004-06-14)
• Categorical variables in a logistic regression model (2004-06-01)

May 2004 (14 entries)

• Health effects of smoking (2004-05-31)
• Prostate Specific Antigen testing (2004-05-31)
• Monte Carlo methods (2004-05-31)
• Sample size for cluster randomized trials (2004-05-27)
• Analyzing percentage data (2004-05-24)
• Sample size calculation example (2004-05-20)
• I hate PowerPoint (2004-05-19)
• Goodness of fit test (2004-05-18)
• Sample size for a survival data model (2004-05-13)
• Advanced SPSS methods (2004-05-12)
• Information theory models (2004-05-11)
• Central Limit Theorem (2004-03-09)
• Acuity microarray analysis software (2004-05-06)
• Overlooking one's own flaws (2004-05-03)

April 2004 (9 entries)

• Degrees of freedom (2004-04-15)
• The Wikipedia (2004-04-15)
• Focus groups and qualitative research (2004-04-13)
• Clinically trivial effects (2004-04-12)
• One-tailed p-values (2004-04-12)
• A serious problem of publication bias (2004-04-09)
• Interactions in logistic regression (2004-04-08)
• Criticisms of randomized clinical trials (2004-04-07)
• Temporality of causes (2004-04-07)

March 2004 (6 entries)

• Constraints on randomization (2004-03-23)
• Evidence Based lessons learned from Cardiology (2004-03-18)
• Microarray data analysis (2004-03-18)
• EM Algorithm (2004-03-15)
• Quality control in the laboratory (2004-03-09)
• Parametric versus nonparametric tests (2004-03-09)

February 2004 (5 entries)

• Conflict of Interest (2004-02-25)
• Evidence Based Medicine and Ethics (2004-02-20)
• Number Needed to Harm Examples (2004-02-18)
• Enumerative and Analytic Studies (2004-02-05)
• Educational Resources (2004-02-03)

(no entries in the weblog prior to February 3)

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