Tuesday, March 31, 2009

OT: Dentists

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I know that sometimes you need to inflict pain to make things better in the long run. And I am a happier person with the idea that I will h...
Monday, March 30, 2009

More on Tenure

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There is an interesting discussion on DrugMonkey about Tenure. I think that the original comments are making a rather important point. Hig...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Academic Positions

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Thoreau (whom I just don't read enough) has a great post on the issues with academic positions in bio-medicine. The recent doubling of...

Cross Sectional Drug Effects

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Probably the most frustrating thing in the life of a pharmacoepidemiologist is explaining why cross-sectional drug effects are impossible to...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Too many names

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Has anybody else noticed that the conceptual idea of the difference in rates/incidence/prevalence of a disease in the exposed and unexposed ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Medication discontinuation

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A lot of my work has been in the area of Pharmacoepidemiology. So it was with great interest that I read the commentary in the March 15th i...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Mistakes

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We all make mistakes. Perfection, much as we would like it to be a standard part of the human condition, is not something that any one of u...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Service work

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The more epidemiology that I do, the less I like being an analyst. It is a very annoying job. People expect you to do data management, ana...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Academic positions

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Thoreau has an interesting article about the perverse effects that can happen when trying to encourage diversity. What I am beginning to r...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

Industry versus Academy

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Mark sent me this article and I thought that it made an excellent point. Research is not right or wrong depending on the source. In this...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Tenure

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It is no surprise that, like any junior academic, I have seriously mixed feelings about the slow erosion of tenure. I must admit that I agr...

OT: What D&D class am I?

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D&D Home Page - What Class Are You? - Build A Character - D&D Compendium
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Pre-specificied Analysis

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One thing that I always find challenging is how to handle changes in the analytic plan. If you send the first of result to the writing grou...

OT: Firefly

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I was visiting a coffee shop in Seattle that was decorated with a lot of Firefly themed pictures. So today's post is entirely about good...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Irregular Observations

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One phenomena that definitely annoys me is dealing with irregular observations. This occurs in contexts were data is passively collected ba...