#Stat

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

A toy example of why test sensitivity and specificity matter in serosurveys.Imagine population seroprevalence is 4%. Test sensitivity is 80%. Specificity is 99.9%. For a random sample of 3000 participants,

The Sabermetric Skeptic

SABRSkeptic

I have quite a few. Most of them are already mentioned in this thread, but let's still break 'em down. Here we gohttps://twitter.com/MLBRandomStats/status/1245941956158664704 First and foremost, clutch is real. Stop

Weng

AznWeng

I did some analysis on ~1000 paying $WORK customers. Do engineers prefer Slack over Teams? Is it only scrappy startups/SMBs that use Slack? Using data from Slack customer lists +

simine vazire

siminevazire

Is pre-registration a proposal aimed at reducing bias/QRPs? Arguably yes, but I don’t think that’s how we should think of it. 1/n(Note: this was inspired by one sentence taken slightly

Foe To Princes 🐰

ifthedevilisix

"[...]The far-right have so often dealt with incipient antisemitism that we view them with great alarm." — Dore Schary of the @ADL (1966)https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sb4oQDqpkQ8&feature=youtu.be&t=910 This is a super info

Lu Chen

houndcl

#chloroquine https://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext Maybe there is a surprise in this observational study.If we treat intubation as an independent event, there is a weak survival benefit from the CQ+

Doug Campbell

TradeandMoney

I just came across this video of a modern MMA guy who goes to expose a Chinese martial arts "master". The MMA guy kicks the crap out of the Tai

Kinkgo @ College Hell

Kinkgobernable

SMT Nocturne HD Remaster inspired me into doing some useful charts and/or lists for people who haven't played the game yet or those who don't want to go page for

PriyankaPulla

PriyankaPulla

This article from @ThePrintIndia says The Lancet observational study was on treatment, but the ICMR is recommending HCQ as prophylaxis, and so they are not comparablehttps://theprint.in/health/icmr-lancet-hcq-study-arent-at-odds-one-is-on-p

Jessica Hullman

JessicaHullman

It's election forecast time! But can we take @FiveThirtyEight or @Economist forecasts at face value? What are forecasters' goals & incentives, especially post 2016 disillusionment? Excited to share a new

Catalin Cimpanu

campuscodi

Per Google, there have been 11 zero-days exploited in the wild in the first half of this year, which puts 2020 to be on par with 2019, when Google said

Dan Rosenblum

sharkbiotech

if the stat that 80%+ of those on ventilators die is true then maybe this is not a lung issue rather a red blood cell issue Rabbi of my synagogue

Alec Stapp

AlecStapp

Not The Onion:“EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation” https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/22/eu-proposing-to-regulate-the-use-of-bayesian-estimation/ Can’t believe I missed the obvious “EU proposing to r

Neve Ⓥ

VeganNeve

What's one food item that you wish had a vegan alternative? Vegan yogurt covered raisins need to be made, stat.

uché blackstock, md

uche_blackstock

A STAT investigation found that a common method of using analytics software to target medical services to patients who need them most is infusing racial bias into decision-making about who

Harry Saratov

HKSaratov

Given the fact that Chelsea were expected to concede FIFTEEN less goals than they did in the 2019/20 Premier League (more than any other team) - Édouard Mendy could be