Over the last few years, I have seen a steady increase in the number of non-inferiority trials being published. This makes some sense, as they generally require fewer participants, and are therefore cheaper and easier to run. However, it presents a problem, as most of us (including myself) don’t really […]
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I read a lot, but I am not very organized. Over the years, I have read thousands of papers about evidence based medicine and methodology. I frequently find myself wanting to share interesting papers with students, or cite them in my blog posts, but I forget where to find the […]
What is a p-value? You might be surprised to hear that the topic is hotly debated; that the mere mention of p-values can get a statistician more excited than a fat kid on Halloween. The p-value is a probability, but it is not the probability that most people think it […]