I love this ... but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social why do you say the "peer review process is deemed to have been compromised", rather than the editing / publishing process? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks for this fascinating example! Just based on the Wikipedia page it doesn't sound like a classic "factors associated with" exercise, but more of a clinical observation. But I'm looking forward to reading Norman Gregg's paper on this

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

Sports stats

Google came up with something useful by moving the data around -maybe some kind of advanced bootstrapping

I asked chatgpt to analyse the graph

See if you can figure out this note to an NHS press release, explaining what it means when there is no statistical evidence of a difference between two numbers - www.england.nhs.uk/2023/11/one-...

Ranked list of "things" most feared by Catholic high school boys in Maryland, 1939. Rank (prevalence). www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Here's a pic from a paper I'm reading today. Not satisfied with low, high, increasing and decreasing? Add more classes - then you can have novel trajectories such as "low increasing slightly then tapering off" and "medium baseline, increasing modestly"

We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... New research with @sharoncox.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social

Why is it always like this?

AI is going to replace statisticians. AI:

I made one to help you interpret jargon in academic research papers #EpiSky