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If your research question is about estimating an association, which association? If your question is to estimate the association …
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Think about all the courses you took as part of your training. How many of them were about how to get good answers to research …
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Inspired by Riley et al and their BMJ article from last year, On the 12th Day of Christmas, a Statistician Sent to Me …, …
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David Lewis defined causation as: “something that makes a difference, and the difference it makes must be a difference from what …
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I’ve been exposed to a record number of papers making basic errors with hypothesis tests. On my bike ride to work I started …
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Whenever someone asks me for advice and they tell me their research question is an association, I launch into some form of the …
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First, I want to strongly state that my goal here is not to demean the authors here in any way whatsoever. If there were some way to …
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I spend a lot time thinking about how much an applied epidemiologist should know about methods or statistics. I clearly don’t …
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I’ve been calling myself a causal inference Luddite recently and it only just occurred to me now to look up what it means. …
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