Archive of older files and files not in the weblog format (June 21, 2007)
1999 (30 entries)
- Stats: T-test (April 18, 1999)
- Stats: Developing a research hypothesis (August
18, 1999)
- Stats: ROC curve (August 18, 1999)
- Stats: R-squared (August 18, 1999)
- Stats: Importing database files into SPSS
(August 18, 1999)
- Stats: Date calculations in SPSS (August 18,
1999)
- Stats: Documenting your SPSS data sets
(August 18, 1999)
- Stats: Inputting a two-by-two table into SPSS
(August 18, 1999)
- Stats: All or nothing (August 18, 1999)
- Stats: Randomization (August 18, 1999)
- Stats: Modifying SPSS data (August 18, 1999)
- Stats: Importing spreadsheet data into SPSS
(August 20, 1999)
- Stats: Asymmetric confidence intervals
(September 3, 1999)
- Stats: Bonferroni correction (September 3,
1999)
- Stats: Chi-square (September 3, 1999)
- Stats: Degrees of Freedom (September 3, 1999)
- Stats: E notation (September 3, 1999)
- Stats: General guide to data entry (September
3, 1999)
- Stats: Page's test (September 3, 1999)
- Stats: Sample size for a diagnostic study
(September 3, 1999)
- Stats: Type II error (September 3, 1999)
- Stats: Interim analysis (September 13, 1999)
- Stats: Designing a pilot study (September 13,
1999)
- Stats: Writing a research grant (September
13, 1999)
- Where do research ideas come from? by Ronan
Conroy (September 20, 1999)
- Research ideas, original email by Ronan
Conroy (September 20, 1999)
- Stats: Guidelines for poisson regression
models (September 21, 1999)
- Stats: Guidelines for linear regression
models (September 21, 1999)
- Stats: Guidelines for logistic regression
models (September 27, 1999)
- Stats: Injury index creation (September 23,
1999)
2000 (45 entries)
- Stats: Best fitting curve (January 26, 2000)
- Stats: Information about Steve Simon
(January 28, 2000)
- Stats: Bootstrap (January 26, 2000)
- Stats: Sample size for a confidence interval
(January 26, 2000)
- Stats: Causation (January 27, 2000)
- Stats: What is collinearity? (January
27, 2000)
- Stats: Composite scores (January 27, 2000)
- Stats: Flaws in a research paper (January 27,
2000)
- Stats: Intention to treat (January 27,
2000)
- Stats: Jargon in Statistics (January 27, 2000)
- Stats: Mixture models (January 27, 2000)
- Stats: Number needed to treat (January 27, 2000)
- Stats: Physician Performance Data
(January 27, 2000)
- Stats: Regression to the mean (January 27,
2000)
- Stats: Sigma in the control chart (January 27,
2000)
- Stats: Outliers (January 28, 2000)
- Stats #01: Using SPSS to manage your
research data (January 28, 2000)
- Stats #02: Using SPSS to describe your
data (January 28, 2000)
- Stats: Quota stratified random sampling
(January 28, 2000)
- Stats: Exporting SPSS graphs and tables
(January 28, 2000)
- Stats: Splines (January 27, 2000)
- Stats: Stein's paradox (January 27, 2000)
- Stats: Stratified random sample (August 23,
2000)
- Stats: Spreadsheet or database (January 28,
2000)
- Stats: Acknowledgments (January 28, 2000)
- Stats: Copyright notice (January 28,
2000)
- Stats: Important disclaimer (January
28, 2000)
- Stats: Links from other sites (February 2,
2000)
- Stats: Future plans for these web pages
(February 7, 2000)
- Stats: Kaplan Meier (June 27, 2000)
- Stats: Fisher's Exact Test (August 23, 2000)
- Stats: Binary outcome sample size
calculations (August 23, 2000)
- Stats: Software used in the creation of
these web pages (August 24, 2000)
- Stats: Alternating treatments (August 31,
2000)
- Stats #03: Using SPSS to develop a linear
regression model (September 11, 2000)
- Stats: Sample size for Mann-Whitney U
(September 28, 2000)
- Stats: Protocol changes (December 22, 2000)
- Stats: Resume for Steve Simon (December
26, 2000)
- Stats #04: Using SPSS to develop a
logistic regression model (December 27, 2000)
- Stats #05: Using SPSS to develop a
survival data model (December 27, 2000)
- Stats #10: Computing simple probabilities
(December 27, 2000)
- Stats #11: Computing simple descriptive
statistics (December 27, 2000)
- Stats #12: Computing simple confidence
intervals (December 27, 2000)
- Stats #13: Computing an appropriate
sample size (December 27, 2000)
- Stats #17: Using statistics to monitor
and improve quality (December 27, 2000)
2001 (18 entries)
- Stats: Writing a methods section (January
15, 2001)
- Stats: Confidence interval with zero
events (January 19, 2001)
- Stats: The minimal impact of population
size on power and precision (January 19, 2001)
- Stats: Loading ODBC drivers from the Microsoft
Data Access Pack (January 24, 2001)
- Stats: The concepts behind the
logistic regression model (July 23, 2002)
- Stats: Web polls (July 30, 2001)
- Stats: Ethics of a placebo group (August 2,
2001)
- Stats: BMJ letter (October 11, 2001)
- Stats: Guidelines for descriptive
models (October 11, 2001)
- Stats: Quick sample size calculations (October
11, 2001)
- Stats: Small sample size (October 11, 2001)
- Stats: Documenting negative results in a
research paper (October 11, 2001)
- Stats #17: Using statistics to monitor
and improve quality (October 11, 2001)
- Stats #18: Quality Control: A Hands-On
Workshop (October 11, 2001)
- Stats #18: Quality Control: A
Hands-On Workshop (condensed version) (October 11, 2001)
- Stats: Unequal group sizes (November 2, 2001)
- Stats: Three things you need for a power
calculation (November 8, 2001)
- Stats: China pictures (November
28, 2001)
2002 (30 entries)
- Stats: Biography for Steve Simon
(January 16, 2002)
- Stats: SPSS citation (March 6, 2002)
- Stats: Why 95% confidence limits (May 6, 2002)
- Stats: Installing Amos version 4.0 (May 7,
2002)
- Stats: SPSS dialog boxes for descriptive
analysis examples (June 21, 2002)
- Stats: SPSS dialog boxes for linear model
examples (June 21, 2002)
- Stats: SPSS dialog boxes for logistic
regression (July 22, 2002)
- Stats: The concepts behind the
logistic regression model (July 23, 2002)
- Stats: Longitudinal data (July 26,
2002)
- Stats: Exploring interactions in a linear
regression model (August 1, 2002)
- Stats: Earlier versions of SPSS
(September 25, 2002)
- Stats #21: What do all these numbers
mean? Sensitivity and specificity (October 11, 2002)
- Stats #22: What Do All These Numbers
Mean? Confidence Intervals and P-Values (October 11, 2002)
- Stats #23: What do all these numbers
mean? Odds ratios and relative risks (October 11, 2002)
- Stats #31: How to read a medical journal
article (October 14, 2002)
- Stats #32: Statistical Evidence. Apples
or oranges? (October 14, 2002)
- Stats #33: Statistical Evidence. Who was
left out? (October 14, 2002)
- Stats #34: Statistical Evidence. Mountain
or molehill? (October 14, 2002)
- Stats #35: Statistical Evidence.
Meta-analysis (October 24, 2002)
- Stats #36: Statistical Evidence.
Interviewing Other Witnesses (October 24, 2002)
- Stats: Stopping a study early (October 29,
2002)
- Stats: Post hoc power (November 1, 2002)
- Stats: Installing SigmaPlot (November
6, 2002)
- Stats: Checking the assumption of normality
(September 11, 2002)
- Stats: Privacy concerns in research (July
12, 2002)
- Stats: So you want to write a
questionnaire (July 12, 2002)
- Stats: Guidelines for survival data models
(October 11, 2002)
- Stats: Getting IRB approval for your research
(October 9, 2002)
- Stats: Log transformation (October 11, 2002)
- Stats: Displaying tables of percentages
(November 6, 2002)
- Stats: Establishing validity and
reliability (November 6, 2002)
2003 (37 entries)
- Stats: All about terminal server
(February 3, 2003)
- Stats #41: Writing a research grant (May
2, 2003)
- Stats #42: Designing a research study
(May 2, 2003)
- Stats #43: Guidelines for good graphics
(July 3, 2003)
- Stats #44: Things You Need to Know Before
Starting a Research Project (September 8, 2003)
- Stats: Building complex models (April 23,
2003)
- Stats #51: The ethics of placebo
controlled trials (May 2, 2003)
- Stats #52: Scientific validity,
statistics, and IRB review (May 2, 2003)
- Stats #53: Signal Detection Strategies
for Paediatric Treatments (May 2, 2003)
- Stats: Why informed consent is so important
(May 2, 2003)
- Stats: Maximum likelihood estimation (May 6,
2003)
- Stats: Cluster randomization (May 9, 2003)
- Stats: Pitch the pie! Ban the bar! (June 5,
2003)
- Stats: Downloading and
installing terminal server (June 6, 2003)
- Stats: Using files with
terminal server (June 6, 2003)
- Stats: Logging on with terminal
server (June 6, 2003)
- Stats: Other issues with
terminal server (June 6, 2003)
- Stats: Printing with terminal
server (June 6, 2003)
- Stats: Removing terminal
server (June 6, 2003)
- Stats: Installing the test
version of terminal server (June 6, 2003)
- Stats: Installing SPSS software (June 6,
2003)
- Stats: SPSS tips (June 13, 2003)
- Stats: Guidelines for ANOVA models (June 20,
2003)
- Stats: SPSS Syntax for Poisson
Regression (Marta Garcia-Granero) (July 29, 2003)
- Stats: A simple model of nonlinear
growth (October 1, 2003)
- Stats: Steps in a typical equivalence
data analysis (November 27, 2003)
- Stats: Personal Update (August 21, 2003)
- Stats: Skewed data (June 5, 2003)
- Stats: Mean or median? (July 28, 2003)
- Stats: Parametric versus nonparametric
tests (July 30, 2001)
- Stats: Guidelines for data mining models
(September 22, 2003)
- Stats: Consulting services that I
provide (April 30, 2003)
- Stats: What's new in version 12.0 of SPSS
(November 11, 2003)
- Stats: What does "overfitting" mean? (July
24, 2003)
- Stats #24: What do all these numbers
mean? Likelihood Ratios (September 10, 2003)
- Stats: Accuracy computations (November 26,
2003)
- Stats: Data is/are (November 26, 2003)
2004 (14 entries)
- Stats: Guidelines for
reliability/validity models (January 13, 2004)
- Stats: S-shaped curves (February 12, 2004)
- Stats: Central Limit Theorem (March 9, 2004)
- Stats: Guidelines for quality control
models (March 12, 2004)
- Stats #61: Controversies in randomized
trials (May 4, 2004)
- Stats #25: What do all these numbers
mean? Regression coefficients (May 6, 2004)
- Stats: Guidelines for information
theory models (May 10, 2004)
- Stats:Information theory models (May 26,
2004)
- Stats: Guidelines for nonlinear
regression models (May 26, 2004)
- Stats #62: Statistical Evidence. Apples
or oranges? (August 2, 2004)
- Stats #63: Statistical Evidence. Who was
left out? (August 2, 2004)
- Stats #64: Statistical Evidence. Mountain
or molehill? (August 2, 2004)
- Stats: Data management for survival data
(August 27, 2004)
- Stats: Confidence intervals (November
29, 2004)
2005 (6 entries)
2007 (1 entry)
No date (23 entries)
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