Wednesday, February 24, 2010

“We've made enormous advances in what they're called” -- more on corporate data cooking

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Yesterday, I mentioned how bundled offers and the ability to pick the most advantageous data could allow a company to produce any number of...
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Sitting and obesity

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It's one of the more difficult epidemiology questions to answer: why is obesity rising so quickly? This is a very hard question to answ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Avandia to be withdrawn?

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From Derek at In the Pipeline, it looks like leaks from a Senate report indicate that Avandia is about to be removed from the market . Thus...

How to Lie with Statistics -- Allstate Edition

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For our latest statistical lie of the week, check out the following commercial. At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, here's a ...
Monday, February 22, 2010

The Tuition Paradox

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This post and Joseph's follow-up has gotten me thinking about a strange aspect of the economics of higher education in recent decades....
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Are humanities and science careers different?

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Mark pointed me to an article by Thomas H. Benton about graduate school in the humanities . These issues have been persistent concerns in t...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Academic work hours

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It is pretty true that academics is not a Monday to Friday job . However, there is actually a nice compensation that can often happen. Whe...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Multiple Testing

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Interesting. False positives in popular fields appear to be much more strongly driven by the number of groups testing these hypotheses rat...
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The difficulty of Soft Outcomes

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There is currently a movement to ban combination medications with acetaminophen as an ingredient. The reasoning behind this appears to be ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Post-Doctoral Fellowships

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Am I really atypical in having had a decent post-doctoral fellowship? Is it a feature of the University of Washington or of my PI? But when...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Cheerios vs the FDA

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Via Tyler Cowen , there is this new article . So, because health research is being cited, Cheerios are a drug? So what is the rationale for...
Wednesday, May 6, 2009

What should your final model be?

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In the decision to present the best possible model based on the weight of evidence, should you present the results of Bayesian Model Averagi...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Measuring changes

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Is there anything trickier than measuring changes? Probably, yes, but this has got to be competitive for the difficulty in translating clea...
Monday, May 4, 2009

Mission Creep

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Professor in Training has a post on the amazing amount of time that it takes to certify a lab and/or a researcher. I find it very interest...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Sick Days part 2

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A nice follow-up to my post yesterday about the public health issues of poor sick leave policy . This area is a place where there is a bad ...