Read this for the thread below on why it's misleading and the Lancet should feel bad

"Participants with an ED discharge outcome of death were excluded from the final analysis as this impacted on their re-presentation rate." Hmmmmmmm..... #statsky #biostats

Just a normal week eh #academia #momademia

Hello #statsky folks I had a baby but I'm back. What did I miss? 😅

New #preprint with @nicolewhite.bsky.social and @tayacollyer.bsky.social. We examined if Australian ethics committees use qualified statistical expertise. Our results revealed a large variation in practice, with some committees using qualified statisticians […] (1 of 4) osf.io/preprints/os...

At the stage of data analysis where I don't even know how many people are in the cohort, nothing is consistent and nothing adds up 👍 (Been around long enough to know this happens on every single project with big, messy, administrative data)

Me trying to get it all done before maternity leave: #statsky #episky

Ok this one is a lot 👀 #statsky #biostats

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back. discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...

Clinician on Friday: I have 20 patients, 5 have a condition and 15 do not. How do I get a p-value showing that my data is significant? Me: What is your hypothesis? Clinician: I don't have one. How do I get a p-value? #statsky #biostats #episky

Ok I don't know what is happening but I'm grateful for all the new followers! Get ready for some cheerful biostats snark in your feed! 🏆

This is so important. Routine, unthinking adjustment for race is a really bad habit. In peer review I have started asking authors to outline the explicit hypothesis about race, or remove race from multivariable analyses. (So far everyone has responded by removing race) #episky #statsky

Crikey this is so true. I went too low with a recent paper and the review was literal gibberish. Parsing and responding to gibberish is exhausting... #academia

Real conversation from biostat consult (outcome was measured on discharge from hospital): Biostat: 'I notice you excluded the participants who died?' Investigator: 'Yes, because there was no outcome' Biostat: 'I would argue that there is an outcome...' #statsky #biostats

Reviewing a study which treated death and stenting as equivalent in survival analysis. Just want to share that with the group. 💣 #statsky

Fun Thursday Problem: Cohort N=3960, but dataset has 4,503 unique IDs in it. (I set up the cohort and dataset from a starting point of 551,176 presentations. I have no one to blame but myself 😜) #statsky

I feel we need a #biostats feed... for bringing together the crew from Ye Olde StatsTwitter. I do not know how to make a feed, but if no one else does it I will try next week! #statsky #academicsky

This week I have been called Tara, Tanya and Tayla in email correspondence by other academics. It is a vibe! #academicsky

Statisticians! Please use hashtags like #stats, so your work or question or idea appears in the StatsSky feed and can be found by people interested in that topic! And please promote other people's work there too, especially if they aren't typically represented in science feeds.

"What's the aim of your analysis? What is your research question" Clinician who fit 14 versions of the same regression and came to me for help: "This wasn't a part of the original project. I just wanted to see if anything was significant. I don't really have an aim." #biostatistics #academia

"I did an analysis for the director of a clinical group at my hospital and they published it without naming me, or allowing me to see/edit the manuscript. They cheerfully told me it had been published when I ran into them in the carpark about 3 months later."

👉 (bio)statistician with an axe to grind? 👉 Want to anonymously vent about a tough experience? 👉Was the grant due tomorrow? 🏆statanon.bsky.social is live! Email your gripes to [email protected] or send a DM #statistics #academia

Evergreen post 👇

Got a pub underway which has been rejected 4 times. Good suggestions from #4 which require a lot of extra reading and analysis. I'm going do it, cut a section, and submit to #5 Sometimes this is just how the work goes! I am outside my main area of expertise and grateful for the input 💪

The best part about publishing my recent qual paper was when the editor at Journal #4 refused to share the reviewer comments which underpinned their decision to reject. All I got was a ~50 word extract from one of the reviews. Science! 🥂 #statsky #academicsky

One of my most frequent comments in statistical peer review. I can tell when you have no idea what the null hypothesis is! #statsky

Hi friends. I'm looking for someone with solid medical stats and/or health data science skills to work with me on development of clinical prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis. It's a Postdoctoral Researcher position and is full time for 2 years. Search ref: 074011 ore.ucc.ie

🧪 Scientist? 🦋 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a list of +200 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

This set of resources for writing Statistical Analysis Plans is really excellent. The templates are useful for RCTs but I've used them as a basis for analysing cohorts and predictive model development studies. #statsky #episky clinicaltrialsalliance.org.au/resource/sta...

In this new article, Taya Collyer surveyed 45 public health researchers' interpretations of regression analyses. She found that they rejected a mechanical objectivity perspective. @tayacollyer.bsky.social doi.org/10.1186/s128... Few quotes follow 🧵 #MetaSci #PhilSci #HistSci #Stats

NEW PAPER: ✨ How to public health researchers interpret regression coefficients? ✨ doi.org/10.1186/s128... Not a survey or quiz, this is qualitative, sociological work aiming to uncover diverse epistemological and interpretative practice in biostatistics. Enjoy! 🥂 Will post a summary next week.

we’re essentially wrapping a month long rewrite of the app’s guts to fix some of the jankiest and worst performing behaviors. it’s not the most exciting update but it will hopefully make the whole thing feel less wonky

Putting this figure in the #stats feed was a choice 😬

Author is trying to tell me (via peer review) that a statistical control limit of +/-0.8SD is reasonable for their context. Paper concludes that a very high number of observations are out of statistical control This is ridiculous, right? Am I losing my mind??? #statsky

2meIRL4meIRL 👇

Dreamed that some study results arrived at my house in a cardboard box. In the box was a dehydrated alien creature and it was my job to work out how to revive it so we could publish the study 🤯 Any other stats folks have poorly-encrypted work dreams?? #statsky #episky

Had a total blast at AIMOS, thanks to everyone who responded positively to my talks! Feeling encouraged and energised 💪 @aimosinc.bsky.social

Feeling low after a conference bc I don't do methods research. Applied statistician feels less valid sometimes Then I got a request for a sample size based on Bland-Altman limits 🤯 I did it in 90 minutes! I am a badass generalist, it's ok to play to your strengths and to be what you are 🌻 #statsky

I'm so thrilled that Adrian's pioneering work on randomising grant outcomes is gaining traction internationally. We need an organisation here in Australia willing to give it a go... #statsky #biostats

How does everyone else manage their ~100,000 Editorial Manager usernames and passwords? (Serious question I am drowning here) #academia #statistics