Video lectures can sometimes drag, maybe even statistics videos? Did you know that YouTube lets you adjust the playback speed? Simply go to ‘Settings’, the little cogwheel lower right, choose ‘speed’, and select from the options. Often, speeding up to …
This is a time of especially intense self-examination in science, a time when the “replication crisis” is rapidly changing our ideas of how to conduct quality research. As our best practices have changed, we look at prior research in a …
Here is link to the COMPARE project, an incredible, though depressing, project designed to check if clinical trials are following their preregistered analysis plans when published. Pre-registration is a great technique to help draw a bright line between planned and …
Regression analysis is incredible–it can literally help us predict the future based on patterns observed in the past. There are many pitfalls, however, to using regression. First, the correlations observed in the past may not apply to new cases or …
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