| Jones RH |
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Stat in Med |
Nov 10 2011 |
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Useful effective sample sizes for different correlation patterns including AR1 and unequal measurement times |
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| Begg MD, Vaughan RD |
Are biostatistics students prepared to succeed in the era of interdisciplinary science? (And how will we know?) |
Am Statistician |
May 2011 |
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Excellent definitions of multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary and how this should affect training; in one experiment a multi-disciplinary approach did not benefit students early in their programs |
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| Kass, R |
Statistical inference: The big picture |
Statistical Sci |
Feb 2011 |
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Bridges frequentist and Bayesian inference with an alternative "big picture" pragmatic depiction; excellent discussions by others |
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Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010. |
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Dec 13 2010 |
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| Nolan D, Temple Lang D |
Computing in the statistics curricula |
Am Statistician |
64:2 |
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A definitive article on what the statistical computing component of a graduate stat program should contain, and what goes wrong when only cursory attention is paid to computing |
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| Brown EN, Kass RE |
What is statistics? |
Am Statistician |
63:2 2009 |
105 |
Defines statistical thinking and what happens when graduate programs do not incorporate it |
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| Divine G, Kapke A et al |
Exemplary data set sample size calculation for Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests |
Stat in Med |
Jan 15 2010 |
108 |
Use of pilot data and noncentrality parameter estimates to scale up to sample size needed for definitive study |
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| Wickham H |
A layered grammar of graphics |
J Comp Graph Stat |
March 2010 |
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Excellent article about foundations of statistical graphics and how to use ggplot2 including a concise specification of Napoleon's march to Moscow |
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| London AJ, Kimmelman J, Emborg ME |
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Science |
May 14 2010 |
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Harm to science of badly designed or badly motivated studies |
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| Tu Y-K, Law GR, Ellison GTH, Gilthorpe MS |
Ratio index variables or ANCOVA? Fisher's cat revisited |
Pharm Stat |
9;2010 |
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Shows contradictory findings resulting from use of ratios when measurement error or imperfect correlations are present |
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| Pocock SJ, Ware JH |
Translating statistical findings into plain English |
Lancet |
Jun 6 2009 |
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Concise reference on how to word results from P-values and confidence limits in medical papers |
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| Ransohoff D |
How to improve reliability and efficiency of research about molecular markers: roles of phases, guidelines, and study design |
J Clin Epi |
Dec 2007 |
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Study design is all important; principles are more important than phases and guidelines; strong case for making early studies reliable; excellent bibliography and list of examples of omics studies gone bad |
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| Young SS |
Gaming the system: Chaos from multiple testing |
IMS Bulletin |
Dec 2007 |
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Editorial about the scientific crisis caused by poor statistical practice in epidemiology |
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J Machine Learning Res |
2007 |
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Excellent summary of benefits of open source and of various licenses |
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| Palmer CR, Shahumyan H |
Implementing a decision-theoretic design in clinical trials:Why and how? |
Stat in Med |
30 Nov 2007 |
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Benefits of a decision-theoretic approach to clinical trials;excellent summary of ethical issues;first known clinical trial; data-dependent design; software |
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| Campbell I |
Chi-squared and Fisher-Irwin tests of two-by-two tables with small sample recommendations |
Stat in Med |
30 Aug 2007 |
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Why not to use Fisher's test or the Yates correction; why to use N-1 instead of N in formula for Pearson chi-square. See DataAnalysisDisc |
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| Louis T |
Our future as history |
Biometrics |
March 2007 |
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A nice article about the future and challenges of biostatistics |
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| Royston P, Altman D, Sauerbrei W |
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Stat in Med |
15 Jan 2006 |
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Covers all the terrible problems caused by dichotomization |
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| Wang A, Gehan EA |
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Stat in Med |
15 Jul 2005 |
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Data reduction method of potentially great use in gene microarray analysis and many other areas |
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| Morton S |
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Stat in Med |
28 Feb 2005 |
493 |
Definitions of consulting and collaboration, excellent case studies where a statistician made a fundamental impact |
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| Senn S |
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Stat in Med |
30 Dec 2005 |
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Interesting discussion on randomization and covariate-balanced randomization, blocking, covariate adjustment, choice of metrics, history |
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| Efron B |
Statistics and the rules of science |
Amstat News |
July 2004 |
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Excellent summary of the scientific process |
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| Dufouil C, Brayne C, Clayton D |
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Stat in Med |
Jul 2004 |
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Good overview, discusses problems in targeting immortal subjects |
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| Hogan J, Roy J, Korkontzelou C |
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Stat in Med |
May 2004 |
43 |
Excellent tutorial on nonrandom dropout |
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| Mason RL |
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JASA |
Mar 2004 |
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Strong case for certification of statisticians |
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| Brumback BA, Hernan MA, Haneuse SJPA, Robins JM |
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Stat in Med |
Mar 2004 |
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| Lin DY, Ying Z |
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Biostat |
2003 |
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Perhaps the most useful approach for comparing 2 treatments when nonrandom dropouts occur |
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Biometrics |
2000 |
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Am J Occ Therapy |
Sep 1998 |
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This is like a mini-course in modeling. Helpful for Masters level (or anyone) working on the Puzzlers. |
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