#Biostats

had i known about it biostats would have been a lot of fun as a careerkind of angry in retrospecttook a calc-for-biologists course at one point and learned there that

Tatiana Prowell, MD

Time for some #biostats. Here's how I talk about risk reduction w/ pts in #oncology clinic. If someone says, there's a 50% reduction in the risk, you need to know

If having COVID in the past conferred no immunity at all, and you were just as likely to get it again as you were the first time, we would have

Being a doctor does not make you a public health expert.Being a statistician does not make you a public health expert.Being an economist does not make you a public health

Dominique Heinke

In the "Baddest Bias" Session #SER2019 I said: "I'd like to add the 'MD Bias' to this list because while most Epis will be thoughtful (if imperfect) about bias, much

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

1/7 Lots of folks trying to understand sensitivity and specificity. Maybe the most important concept to understand right now is that of POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUE.Given a test result is positive,

Women in Statistics and Data Science

ON BEING AND SUPPORTING #FIRSTGEN STUDENTS:Being #FIRSTGEN means navigating a complex system without benefit of familial knowledge. For me, this meant attending to every academic rule or request. I didn’t

Michelle Caunca

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#EpiTwitter #MedTwitter this is a huge problem in public health. the underlying principles of public health are necessarily different from medicine. public health focuses on the population, and medicine focuses

Women in Statistics and Data Science

SURVIVING THE ACADEMIC JOB INTERVIEW FOR NERDS!Here are my thoughts on how the nerdy and introverted can deal with a situation that demands a lot of social interaction – the

Pains me to say it, but @ProfMattFox made a good point yesterday about the difference between ID methods and non-ID methods. I was thinking about that on my dog walk

Michael Carmody

So while the absolute hack of an excuse for AU journalism is going "OMG WORST NUMBERS EVAR", here's an attempt at a science based approach at why 400+ cases today

Olayemi Adeniran

THREAD 1: MPH concentrationsI will start with the various concentrations (area of specialization) in MPH and link it with the job prospects after graduation. You must choose one when applying

JD - Asclépios

Alors... Pour tous les gros malins qui m'expliquent que les études observationnelles ou rétrospectives doivent être randomisées pour être valide.Vous placez le niveau tellement bas que je pense qu'il faut

Gabriel Bosslet

This week our manuscript on the role of in-person school on community spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Indiana was published online in Clinical Infectious Diseases.This thread will outline our findings. manuscript:

1. Part 2: My journey into Consultancy work. My motto in life is whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.https://twitter.com/mentorshipzim/status/1321924214429904896 1. During my time as

[THREAD]Introduction à la pyramide des preuves en médecine Biais potentiels à chaque étage : indication, publication, évaluation, temps immortel... Pourquoi l'essai contrôlé randomisé double aveugle est-il le gold standard de