Join us on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab 🧪 We are joined by @sara-altman.bsky.social, who will show us how to explore and analyze data using AI assistants in #RStats or #Python! Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab

If you're interested in data sleuthing but aren't sure where to start, or if you're conducting a systematic review/meta-analysis and want to ensure you're not including junk studies, check out this Cochrane training session on Trustworthiness Assessment by @jdwilko.bsky.social

Great commentary too!

ICYMI: statsepi.substack.com/p/impact-by-...

Noem mij niet blond, noem mij niet gesluierd ik ben het licht dat door beiden heen schijnt. Je kunt mij niet scheiden in goed of kwaad, want liefde kent geen grenzen en angst is geen waarheid. We zijn geen twee gezichten Auteur: Marcel Kolder, met dank, als reactie op #Wilders

For researchers with limited background in statistics, we have written this gentle introduction to simulation studies (with @timpmorris.bsky.social and other people from the STRATOS initiative): bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/1...

The REDCap Revolution: How a Clinical Data Management Tool Empowered Global Research Communities www.the-scientist.com/the-redcap-r... #redcap #bioinformatics #datascience

Thrilled to share our latest piece in Curr Opin Support Palliat Care on #caregiver training in #end-of-life care across #Latin America. Grateful to have coauthored with @jacalvache.bsky.social & Sandra Zambrano 💙 Read here: DOI 10.1097/SPC.0000000000000730

Nice primer on cluster randomized crossover designs. Will add B-FREE to the examples provided. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This fourth article in a seven part series presents the Core GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation) approach to addressing risk of bias, publication bias, and rating up certainty www.bmj.com/content/389/...

The most math equations written on a whiteboard by a clinician I've seen - yet amazingly well delivered to a broad audience! S. Urbut's talk @broadinstitute.org A Practical Primer on Bayesian Statistics youtube.com/watch?v=jcFS... @mgbresearch.bsky.social @harvardmed.bsky.social

HIRING! We offer 3 fully funded PhD positions to work on research methodology with experts in a great medical research environment. More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A peer review guide - Empowering early career reviewers: 🔹 interactive version rachelheyard.pages.uzh.ch/ecr-reviewer... 🔹 pdf version osf.io/ubqyf

Happy Birthday John Snow!!! Small note: he didn't use disease mapping to 'determine the source' of the London cholera outbreak in 1854. He suspected the Broad Street pump immediately. His map was created to try and convince people that cholera spread through water, a radical argument at the time.

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-...

The 'new regression models' can be described and interpreted very easily, they even allow statistical inference, they perform just as well as good old machine learning and they no longer consume any energy once they have been developed and written down as a formula on a piece of paper!

And more focus on methodological rigor, specifically for the purpose of avoiding Research Waste. You can't say you weren't warned.

Academics, let's make 2025 the year where we are more explicit and honest about our causal aims and interpretations Using, for instance, the terms "risk factor" or "associated with a decrease in" is not a clever way to avoid the issue

Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

"Have directed acyclic graphs fullfilled their promise?" - the recording of my debate with @margaritamb.bsky.social at the World Congress of Epidemiology 2024 is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG79... #EpiSky #CausalSky #WCE2025

"If you are going to write a scientific paper for publication, you are also going to have to write a response to reviewers". Advice on "How to write a response to reviewers" from a group of editors who've ready many, many thousands of such responses. www.europeanurology.com/article/S030...

I am running my statistical rethinking course again starting in January. But this time just for Leipzig locals, so I can work with a smaller group this year and track individual progress better. I think that will help me tune the material, espeically homework, better. Materials still open however.

Every time you write "there is no effect/difference (p>0.05)", when you mean "we found no evidence for an effect/difference (p>0.05)" a baby kitten dies

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Okay, I think we’re finally gaining momentum! I’ve identified a few #LatinAmerican scientists in this platform and will be sharing a starter pack next week. Let’s make this grow—share widely, tag others, and join the conversation. I’m aiming to include as many as possible!

My new favourite kind of thread 😂

In a couple of years we will talk about risk factor studies -- putting in a bunch of covariates in a multivariable regression model and declare the significant factors as important "risk factors" for health -- as one of the biggest mistakes in health research