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Monday, February 16, 2015
Using Mixture Models to Determine Treatments for Colon Cancer
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Finite mixture models seem to hold much promise. They are currently used for everything from determining what movie you would like to wat...
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Solving the Mystery of the Swedish Mammography Trial cont.
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Ja. Jeg fandt det! Dicte would be proud. I had been looking for causality to the mammography trial in the two Swedish counties of...
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Solving the Mystery of Swedish Mammography Trials
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Kenneth Branagh as Kurt Wallander I felt like Kurt Wallander on the trail of a suspect in a small Swedish town with the murder rate of...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Saving EMILIA
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In a recent post I raised a concern about the large randomized clinical trial conducted to test the value of the drug Kadcyla . The trial...
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Intent-To-Treat is the Last Refuge of the Cancer Resercher
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In the large Swedish study on the effectiveness of mammograms the researchers couldn't force people to get mammograms but they could f...
Sunday, January 4, 2015
A Fools Gold Standard
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Austin Frakt at The Incidental Economist has a review on Angus Deaton's critique of randomized control trials as the "gold stan...
Monday, July 7, 2014
RCTs are Necessary to Determine Causality. Right? Wrong.
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It seems to be a widely held belief that randomized control trials are preferable if one is interested in determining causality. Causality...
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