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How did the international public health establishment fail us on …

WEBPeter Dorman points us to this brilliant article, “Miasmas, mental models and preventive public health: some philosophical reflections on science in the COVID-19 …

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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, …

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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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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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Statistics as squid ink: How prominent researchers can get …

WEBStatistics as squid ink: How prominent researchers can get away with misrepresenting data1 Andrew Gelman2 and Alexey Guzey3 10 Jan 2020 Under the heading of …

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Presentation Schedule

WEBBayesian statistics, multilevel modeling, causal inference, and social networks. Research group presentation schedule . Meetings are Thursdays from 4pm - 6pm in the Statistics …

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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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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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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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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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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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A data science course for high school students

WEBDavid Kane writes in to tell us about his free 8-week data science course for high school students (and others) starting June 3rd. He writes, “this is the 5th time I am …

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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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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 …

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Why are we such a litigious society

WEBThe United States is already the most litigious society in the world. We spend about 2.2 percent of gross domestic product, roughly $310 billion a year, or about …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Relative vs. absolute risk reduction . . . 500 doctors want to know

WEBLike every attempt at predicting or modeling this disease, getting from the relative risk reduction in a fast-tracked clinical trial to absolute risk reduction long-term in …

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How to think about the effect of the economy on political …

WEBWe’re familiar with the idea that the economy can and should affect elections. The connection is borne out empirically (Roosevelt’s victory in 1932 following the …

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“Latest observational study shows moderate drinking associated …

WEBDaniel Lakeland writes: This one deserves some visibility, because of just how awful it is. It goes along with the adage about incompetence indistinguishable from …

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If I got a nickel every time . . . Statistical Modeling, Causal

WEBBeyond the general survey analysis, it generated 338 individual reports, each tailored for a specific Member of Parliament. Savoie commented: Cool! But 3000/338 = 9 …

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