Twenty-five years ago, 300,000 people marched in Genoa against the G8 summit. The Italian state responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, and improvised torture chambers, but history has vindicated the critique of capitalist globalization by the protesters.

Provides methods to calculate diagnostics for multicollinearity among predictors in a linear or generalized linear model. It also provides methods to visualize those diagnostics following Friendly & K...

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Time to an event of interest over a lifetime is a central measure of the clinical benefit of an intervention used in a health technology assessment (HTA). Within the same trial, multiple end-points m...

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The popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.

Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...

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I'm finally dipping my does into causal inference for quasi-experiments, and my first use case has missing data. In this post we practice propensity score matching with multiply-imputed data sets, and...

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I was recently discussing the analytic plan for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a clinical collaborator when she asked whether it’s appropriate to adjust for pre-specified baseline covariates...

Clinical decisions are often guided by clinical prediction models or diagnostic tests. Decision curve analysis (DCA) combines classical assessment of predictive performance with the consequences of u....