Statistically Funny

When trials disagree...it can get ugly! But going into meta-analysis could help sort things out. For a meta-analysis - a techniqu...

We've apparently been using the word "promising" to mean "showing signs of future excellence"  since about 1...

From my guest blog post at Scientific American - Holy sacred cow! Personal bias, wishful thinking plus biased research results is one ...

As if there's not enough for us to remember, we're supposed to remember endless acronyms for trials too now. There's e...

Finding and aggressively treating non-symptomatic disease that would never have made people sick , inventing new conditions and re-defini...

From my contribution to the Cochrane Collaboration blog: Cochrane @ PubMed Health If "Cochrane" and " CD005032 " ar...

Evidence-based should mean there is a systematic approach behind the work seeking to minimize bias and rely as much as possible on rese...

I've heard versions of this "increasing confidence" aphorism for years, but recently wondered it came from. This se...

To inoculate yourself against "significant" effects that might not improve health, have a look at papers by Ioannidis and Gotz...