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December 2007 (10 entries)
November 2007 (18 entries)
- Interesting website:
Reporting Non Significant Results: Summary (November 29, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Articles on statistics, epidemiology and research design (November 29, 2007)
- Stats: No longer the sole statistician?
(November 28, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Engagement of Institutions in Research (November 28, 2007)
- Interesting article: The abuse of
power: the pervasive fallacy of power calculations for data analysis (November
27, 2007)
- Interesting article: The use
of predicted confidence intervals when planning experiments and the misuse of
power when interpreting results (November 27, 2007)
- Stats: Testing for an increasing trend
in a proportion (November 26, 2007)
- Stats: A new and simple approach
for monitoring safety data (November 18, 2007)
- Stats: My page names are too long
(November 17, 2007)
- Stats: The pros and cons of control
charts versus data mining (November 17, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Distinguishing Association from Causation (November 16, 2007)
- Stats: Monitoring adverse events
during peritoneal dialysis (November 15, 2007)
- Stats: Stair step interpolation in R
(November 15, 2007)
- Stats: Reforming conflict of interest
statements (November 12, 2007)
- Stats: NNH talk update (November 12,
2007)
- Stats: Postlude to my Dallas talk
(November 11, 2007)
- Stats: Grow up and learn how to do Statistics
(November 8, 2007)
- Stats: Handout for diagnostic
testing (November 6, 2007)
October 2007 (21 entries)
- Stats: Revising my definition
section (October 18, 2007)
- Stats: New categories needed (October
18, 2007)
- Interesting article:
Comparison of hospital episode statistics and central cardiac audit database
in public reporting of congenital heart surgery mortality (October 18, 2007)
- Interesting website: 1 Guy vs.
1-Click - guy wins (October 18, 2007)
- Stats: Warning message is more
appropriate than you might think (October 18, 2007)
- Stats: Open Access Journals,
part 2 (October 14, 2007)
- Interesting website: Calling
all charlatans (October 12, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Stowers Institute Bioinformatics Center and IT Group (October 12, 2007)
- Stats: Illustrations for a case
study of the TGN 1412 trial (October 12, 2007)
- Stats: Confidence interval for a
rate (October 10, 2007)
- Interesting website: Statistical
Data Analysis: Prove It with Data (October 9, 2007)
- Interesting book: Statistics as
Principled Argument (October 9, 2007)
- Stats: Case study of accrual in a
clinical trial, Part 2 (October 9, 2007)
- Interesting book: Using R for Introductory
Statistics (October 8, 2007)
- Interesting website: R FAQ (October 8, 2007)
- Interesting website: R Manuals (October
8, 2007)
- Interesting website: R News (October 8,
2007)
- Stats: Seminar on Open Access Journals
(October 5, 2007)
- Stats: Educational and networking
opportunities for statisticians in the Kansas City area (October 4, 2007)
- Stats: An alternate way of viewing accrual
(October 3, 2007)
- Stats: Help for Statistics at UMKC and
KUMC (October 1, 2007)
September 2007 (24 entries)
- Stats: The latest word on my promotion (September
27, 2007)
- Stats: Html debris copied from other websites
(September 27, 2007)
- Interesting article: Making a
difference: the clinical research programme for children (September 26, 2007)
- Interesting article: Debating how
to do ethical research in developing countries. (September 26, 2007)
- Stats: Patterns to look for in a histogram
(September 21, 2007)
- Stats: The order of entering
interactions into a model (September 20, 2007)
- Stats: What does a statistician do
all day? (September 17, 2007)
- Stats: What is an adverse
reaction? (September 14, 2007)
- Stats: What is an adverse event?
(September 14, 2007)
- Stats: Format codes for my web pages (September
14, 2007)
- Stats: Case study of accrual in a
clinical trial (September 11, 2007)
- Stats: Is my confidence interval
wide? (September 11, 2007)
- Stats: Alphabetical bookmark list
(September 7, 2007)
- Stats: My promotion application
(September 5, 2007)
- Stats: Resources for grant writers
(September 4, 2007)
- Interesting website: A
Guide for Proposal Writing (September 4, 2007)
- Interesting website: All
About Grants Tutorials (September 4, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Clinical Research Guide (September 4, 2007)
- Interesting
website: Common Mistakes in NIH Applications (September 4, 2007)
-
Interesting website: Effective Foundation Grantseeking Strategies (September
4, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Grant Proposal Writing Tips (September 4, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Proposal Writing Short Course (September 4, 2007)
- Interesting
website: Specialized Proposal Development Guides (September 4, 2007)
- Interesting website: The Art
of Grantsmanship (September 4, 2007)
August 2007 (19 entries)
- Stats: External scholars needed to review
my promotion materials (August 31, 2007)
- Interesting website: Overview
of Computer Intensive Statistical Inference Procedures (August 31, 2007)
- Stats: Are we assuming a normal sample or a
normal population? (August 30, 2007)
- Stats: What makes pediatric research
different? (August 29, 2007)
- Interesting article: How Quickly
Do Systematic Reviews Go Out of Date? A Survival Analysis (August 27, 2007)
- Stats: Common sources of confusion in a
class on quality control (August 22, 2007)
- Interesting website: Centre
for Multilevel Modelling (August 20, 2007)
- Interesting article:
Enhancing research integrity (August 17, 2007)
- Interesting website: PubCon
Street Tips on Giving Presentations : Investing in our Speakers (August 17,
2007)
- Stats: What is a mosaic plot? (August
14, 2007)
- Stats: Does promoting your book constitute
a conflict of interest? (August 13, 2007)
- Stats: How good is my prediction? (August 13, 2007)
- Stats: Need for a conflict of
interest policy (August 9, 2007)
- Stats: Justifying the sample size for a
microarray study (August 9, 2007)
- Interesting website: Data
Visualization (August 7, 2007)
- Interesting article: Visual
inspection with acetic acid as a cervical cancer test (August 7, 2007)
- Interesting article: The effect of
Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education (August 7, 2007)
- Interesting website: The
Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomised
studies in meta-analyses (August 7, 2007)
- Stats: Which expert should you believe? (August
3, 2007)
July 2007 (23 entries)
- Interesting article:
Correlation coefficients in medical research: from product moment correlation
to the odds ratio (July 27, 2007)
- Interesting article: Record
linkage research and informed consent: who consents? (July 26, 2007)
- Stats: Conflict of interest in the
Wakefield MMR study (July 26, 2007)
- Stats: Continuing education
questions for a talk on diagnostic tests (July 24, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Bayesian Unconditional Power Analysis (July 24, 2007)
- Interesting website: The
Taxonomy of Logical Fallacies (July 23, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Advice on designing scientific posters (July 23, 2007)
- Interesting website: Ed Rigdon's
SEM FAQ (July 23, 2007)
- Interesting article: Clinical
trials: the viewpoint of children (July 23, 2007)
- Stats: Classic calculations for a
diagnostic test (July 20, 2007)
- Interesting website: Chance
News 28, Sloppy animal research (July 19, 2007)
- Interesting article: Linear
Information Models: An Introduction (July 19, 2007)
- Stats: I don't want to use a randomized
trial (July 18, 2007)
- Stats: Conflict of interest list
(July 18, 2007)
- Stats: Code for drawing new likelihood
ratio slide rule (July 12, 2007)
- Interesting article:
HRT: a reappraisal of the risks and benefits (July 11, 2007)
- Interesting website:
Scientific Misconduct Blog (July 11, 2007)
- Interesting article: Research
misconduct: can Australia learn from the UK’s stuttering system? (July 9,
2007)
- Interesting website: Journal Info
(July 9, 2007)
- Stats: The research world is not black and
white (July 7, 2007)
- Stats: Recommendations from Sackett
et al for evaluating a diagnostic test (July 2, 2007)
- Interesting website: Bias glossary
(July 2, 2007)
- Interesting quote: All models are...
(July 1, 2007)
June 2007 (16 entries)
- Stats: The stubborn insistence on
placebos (June 29, 2007)
- Stats: How two bad control groups can add
up to one good comparison (June 28, 2007)
- Stats: The debate about historical
control groups (June 27, 2007)
- Stats: The trouble with apples and oranges
(June 25, 2007)
- Stats: I deserve a promotion (June 22,
2007)
- Stats: Why the plus one in the percentile
formula p(n+1)? (June 22, 2007)
- Stats: Can the standard deviation be
more than half of the range? (June 22, 2007)
- Stats: Use of diagnostic tests for making
clinical decisions (June 15, 2007)
- Stats: When bad control groups happen to
good researchers (June 15, 2007)
- Stats: Seven different formulas for the odds
ratio (June 14, 2007)
- Stats: Accounting for cyclical trends in a
regression model (June 13, 2007)
- Stats: Illustrated case studies of
research ethics and research fraud (June 11, 2007)
- Stats: Centering the data (June 8, 2007)
- Interesting website: Guidance
on Research Involving Coded Private Information or Biological Specimens (June
6, 2007)
- Stats: Calculating
probabilities involving correlated normal variables (June 4, 2007)
- Stats: Applying likelihood ratios
in your head (June 1, 2007)
May 2007 (6 entries)
April 2007 (16 entries)
- Stats: Cohen's Kappa with small cell sizes
(April 26, 2007)
- Stats: ANOM table for alpha=0.05, part 2
(April 21, 2007)
- Stats: Fitting a beta binomial model using
BUGS (April 17, 2007)
- Stats: A simple illustration of the
Metropolis algorithm (April 13, 2007)
- Stats: Special section for
quotations (April 11, 2007)
- Interesting quote: When I talk... (April
11, 2007)
- Stats: Quantifying the ability of
dreams to predict the future (April 10, 2007)
- Stats: IRB review of studies with
methodological flaws (April 10, 2007)
- Interesting quote: One of the
naturalists... (April 9, 2007)
- Stats: What is an adequate
sample size for establishing validity and reliability? (April 9, 2007)
- Stats: What makes a good diagnostic test?
(April 6, 2007)
- Stats: useR! 2007 conference in Ames, Iowa (April
6, 2007)
- Stats: Calculating rates (April 6, 2007)
- Stats: Further exploration of Type I and
Type II errors (April 5, 2007)
- Stats: Tracking adverse events
during kidney biopsy, Part 2 (April 5, 2007)
- Stats: The Seven Deadly Sins of Researchers (April
4, 2007)
March 2007 (22 entries)
- Stats: R Wiki (March 27, 2007)
- Stats: IRB review of a pilot study (March 26,
2007)
- Stats: Confidence intervals for count data (March
22, 2007)
- Stats: Some UNIX humor (March 22, 2007)
- Stats: Interpretation of an odds
ratio (March 21, 2007)
- Stats: What I'm working on right now (March
18, 2007)
- Stats: Randomly dividing a dataset in R
(March 16, 2007)
- Stats: Bad calculation of annual rate of
return (March 15, 2007)
- Stats: Tracking adverse events during
kidney biopsy (March 14, 2007)
- Stats: Thanks to all my proofreaders!
(March 14, 2007)
- Stats: Ignore weak evidence at your own peril
(March 13, 2007)
- Stats: Reviewing a paper on qualitative
data analysis (March 11, 2007)
- Stats: Manipulation of peer-review
publications by pharmaceutical companies (March 9, 2007)
- Stats: Calculating a P control chart
(March 7, 2007)
- Stats: P control chart, answers to on
your own exercises (March 7, 2007)
- Stats: Calculation of Analysis of
Means limits (March 6, 2007)
- Stats: ANOM table for alpha=0.05, part 1
(March 4, 2007)
- Stats: PharmedOUT website (March 2, 2007)
- Stats: Handouts for quality control
workshop (March 2, 2007)
- Stats: Calculating an XBAR-S control chart
(March 2, 2007)
- Stats: XBAR-S control chart,
answers to on your own exercise (March 2, 2007)
- Stats: Using a pocket calculator to compute
a standard deviation (March 1, 2007)
February 2007 (12 entries)
- Stats: Team exercise to illustrate ANOM
calculations (February 28, 2007)
- Stats: Formulas for cumulative
Poisson and binomial probabilities (February 19, 2007)
- Stats: Searching through the Current Index to
Statistics (February 15, 2007)
- Stats: A recent contribution to
Wikipedia and to the Chance Wiki (February 15, 2007)
- Stats: Three simple rules to establish
quality (February 15, 2007)
- Stats: Watch out for ambiguous data (February
14, 2007)
- Stats: Advice for searching in PubMed
(February 11, 2007)
- Stats: Compound interest and powers
(February 11, 2007)
- Stats: Resources for fMRI data analysis
(February 8, 2007)
- Stats: When is a control chart not a control
chart? (February 6, 2007)
- Stats: Some resources for
Analysis of Means (June 30, 2006) (updated February 1, 2007)
- Stats: Modular arithmetic and rounding
in R (February 1, 2007)
January 2007 (13 entries)
- Stats: The danger of providing expert
testimony when you are not an expert (January 31, 2007)
- Stats: Do your own power and sample size
calculations (January 30, 2007)
- Stats: Fitting a difference in
exponential functions (January 26, 2007)
- Stats: Manipulating graphic images
using a touchscreen interface (January 23, 2007)
- Stats: Books that discuss Poisson
regression (January 19, 2007)
- Stats: Tests of hypothesis and
confidence intervals involving a correlation coefficient (January 18, 2007)
- Stats: Technometrics review of
Statistical Evidence (January 16, 2007)
- Stats: Resources describing biplots (January
15, 2007)
- Stats: What can you do with 100 words? (January
12, 2007)
- Stats: Differences between the
Chi-square test, Fisher's Exact test, and logistic regression (January 9,
2007)
- Stats: Can Google replace your doctor?
(January 4, 2007)
- Stats: Variable cluster sizes and their impact
on sample size calculations (January 3, 2007)
- Stats: Teaching Statistics, An
International Journal for Teachers (January 3, 2007)