Showing posts with label Epidemiology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Epidemiology. Show all posts
Friday, October 24, 2014

Have you had your flu shot yet?

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This is Joseph I was reading Mike the Mad Biologist's web page and I noted this article on Ebola and the flu.  Ebola has been in the ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Differential growth in life expectancy?

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There has been a lot of discussion about Annie Lowrey's article on changes in life expectancy, documenting how most of the recent rise ...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Medical Innovation is expensive

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Megan McArdle has some strong opinions on how high drug prices have managed to help drive medical innovation : Drug development is essenti...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Epidemiology example in tech

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This post is a great example of epidemiological reasoning : When people compare the stability of Linux and Windows, they may be biased a ...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Social epidemiology of who does not get vaccinated

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This post on who is actually refusing vaccination  for their children is interesting indeed.  Consider:  As Seitz-Wald explains, the unvac...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

General versus particular cases

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Andrew Gelman did a very interesting article in Slate on how being overly reliant on statistical significance can lead to spurious findings...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Epidemiology and Truth

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This post by Thomas Lumley of Stats Chat is well worth reading and thinking carefully about.  In particular, when talking about a study of ...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Some epidemiology for a change

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John Cook has an interesting point : When you reject a data point as an outlier, you’re saying that the point is unlikely to occur again, ...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Health Insurance Question

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Austin Frakt on John Goodman's proposals in Priceless :  Anyway, the main rule John doesn’t like is community rating. He explains the...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Another reason observational epidemiology is hard

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John D Cook : And yet behind every complex set of rules is a paper showing that it outperforms simple rules, under conditions of its auth...
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Why Observational Epidmeiology is frustrating

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Andrew Gelman has a post up on the history of cigarette smoking research , based on a book he was reading a while back.  It's pretty int...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Government Health Care

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Aaron Caroll: There are plenty of things that government does poorly. Or, at least you can make that argument, and find some support for i...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

Levitt and publishing bias in medical journals

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Via Andrew Gelman here is a quote from Steven Levitt When I told my father that I was sending my work saying car seats are not that effec...
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Cost is tricky in health care

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An interesting Yglesias post: Instead the existing Medicare Advantage program tries to apply a risk-adjustment formula to the patients, a...
Friday, August 17, 2012

More Econ 101

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Worth pondering So, when somebody says that the government should buy paper from a private provider, hey, great. There are lots of buyers...
Saturday, August 11, 2012

Harm Reduction

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DrugMonkey has a post on legalization efforts for marijuana in Washington state.  I think that this might be my public health background, b...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Yglesias on the Dangers of Observational Data

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Matt Yglesias has a piece on the Dangers of Data that really should be the Dangers of Observational Data!  True randomized or quasi-randomi...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

When is a conclusion credible: health care edition

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I think that critical thinking skills are needed when discussing health outcomes now more than ever.  Consider this prelude to reporting stu...
Friday, March 2, 2012

Added Sugars

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From Aaron Carroll : As we talk about how hard it is to combat obesity, it’s worth thinking about numbers like this once in a while. If we...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Nice Observation

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This post was hoisted from the comments in Megan McArdle's website and it makes a point that we often forget: the eventual chance of de...