P.Mean Website (created 1997-12-22, reborn at this location 2008-06-21)

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Welcome to the P.Mean website. Here are the most important links:

  1. P.Mean: Archive organized by category
  2. P.Mean: Contact me
  3. P.Mean: General help
  4. P.Mean: Illustrated case studies in research ethics
  5. P.Mean: Monthly Mean newsletter
  6. P.Mean: Personal details
  7. P.Mean: Professional Resume of Stephen D. Simon
  8. P.Mean: Statistical Evidence in Medical Trials
  9. P.Mean: Statistics events in the Kansas City area
  10. P.Mean: Statistics webinars (web seminars)
  11. P.Mean: Testimonials
  12. My Facebook account
  13. My Facebook fanpage for The Monthly Mean
  14. My LinkedIn account
  15. My old website at www.childrensmercy.org/stats
  16. My Twitter account

Can I share this? I get a lot of people who ask if they can share a particular page or link. That is absolutely fine and is even encouraged. Note the license at the bottom of every page on this website. It is an open source attribution license. You can re-use my material as long as you cite the original source. I'm a big fan of open source and I am repaying all the generous people who offer their material in a way that makes it easy for me to re-use it by placing my material under the same easy license. My old website is controlled by Children's Mercy Hospital and they have copyrighted the material, but they do allow linking.

Are you interested in hiring me to help with your research planning or data analysis? My typical rate is $175 per hour, unless the work is classified or it involves extensive travel. I offer discounts for graduate students working on a thesis or dissertation. I also offer training classes, including training via the web (webinars). Go to my consulting page for more details or you can contact me and tell me about your project. If you work at UMKC, you can get help through the UMKC Research and Statistical Consult Service. I work there part-time. I also am developing a list of other consultants.

The most recent website entries (View all website entries for 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, or 2008)

  1. P.Mean: Honorable mention for my R code on accrual (created 2012-01-25)
  2. P.Mean: Arguing with the material in an ethics training program (created 2012-01-12)
  3. P.Mean: What to report when SPSS says the p-value is zero (created 2012-01-09)
  4. P.Mean: Is sample size justification really different for animal studies compared to human studies? (created 2012-01-06)
  5. P.Mean: Post hoc power persists becauses peer-reviewers demand it (created 2012-01-04)
  6. P.Mean: A very silly graph (created 2012-01-01)
  7. P.Mean: Unrealistic scenarios for sample size calculations (created 2011-12-20)

Interesting articles, books, quotes, or websites added to this site recently. (View all interesting articles, books, quotes, and websites for 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 or 2008)

  1. Reporting of loss to follow-up information in randomised controlled trials with time-to-event outcomes: a literature survey
  2. Evidence-Based Medicine in the EMR Era
  3. Failure to report protocol violations in clinical trials: A threat to internal validity?
  4. A proposed method to investigate reliability throughout a questionnaire
  5. Application of Latent Semantic Analysis for Open-Ended Responses in a Large, Epidemiologic Study

The most recent personal entries (View all personal entries)

  1. Steve, Cathy, and Nicholas -- A tour of "no brake" hill (created 2012-01-10)
  2. Steve, Cathy, and Nicholas -- Cathy tells a great "knock knock" joke (created 2012-01-04)
  3. Steve, Cathy, and Nicholas -- Nicholas and his epic battles (created 2011-12-11)
  4. Steve, Cathy, and Nicholas -- The family visits Branson (created 2011-12-11)
  5. Steve, Cathy, and Nicholas -- Steve runs in the snow (created 2011-12-10)

The most popular pages, excluding home page and various archive pages (2010-01-01 through 2010-10-04)

  1. http://www.pmean.com/08/RegressionAndAnova.html
  2. http://www.pmean.com/06/Fishbone.html
  3. http://www.pmean.com/10/ResidualConfounding.html
  4. http://www.pmean.com/webinars/20100421/OddsRatio.pdf
  5. http://www.pmean.com/09/RocLayout.html
  6. http://www.pmean.com/08/LanDeMets.html
  7. http://www.pmean.com/09/NormalPlot.html
  8. http://www.pmean.com/08/InterveningVariable.html
  9. http://www.pmean.com/09/NegativeAutocorrelation.html

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. This page was written by Steve Simon and was last modified on 2011-01-01.