by Usha Govindarajulu | Apr 26, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Epidemiology, Healtcare, Usha Govindarajulu
April 26, 2023 In a recent article that appeared in Statistics in Medicine, Arntzen et al discussed that quarantine time length for persons infected with SARS-CoV-2 was based on incubation time distribution estimates. However, given the unknowns about time to...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Apr 12, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
April 12, 2023 The authors, Ozaki and Ninomiya have presented how information criteria, like AIC, can be adapted when detecting change points in a Cox proportional hazards regression. The authors motivated the use of change-points due to onset of efficacy being...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Mar 29, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, New York
Statistical issues in general (Part I) March 27, 2023 In an article that first appeared in 2021 in Biometrics but is now finally open access in the same journal , the authors, Moss and Bin discuss how publication bias and p-hacking have had strong effects on...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Mar 16, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, COVID-19, Healtcare, Machine Learning, Usha Govindarajulu
March 15, 2023 In a recent article that appeared in Science News, a teach from Johns Hopkins University discussed their proof of concept study to show how their machine learning system used electronic health data to make predictions to determine who would be most...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Mar 2, 2023 | Biostatistics, Usha Govindarajulu
February 28, 2023 The author, Olivier Bouaziz, developed a new method to calculate pseudo-observations for the survival function and also the restricted mean survival time (RMST) that used formulas which were based on the original estimators and not on the...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Feb 15, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, New York, Usha Govindarajulu
February 15, 2023 In an article recently published in the Biometrical Journal, Magir and Jimenez discuss delayed separation of survival curves with proposals for a new weighted log-rank test to handle this through stratification. This common problem has occurred in...