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Paul Thompson

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RSS Chartered Statistician/ Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK

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Rob Calver @robcalver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I am giving away a free copy of the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al!! Please like, repost, and follow to enter. I will randomly draw the winner next Weds July 8. 😀 routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian
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Eslam Maher @eslammaher.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
COMMENTARY: What Makes an Estimand Useful? Guidance on the Choice of Intercurrent Event Strategies @brennankahan.bsky.social @suziecro.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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What Makes an Estimand Useful? Guidance on the Choice of Intercurrent Event Strategies
While the use of estimands in randomized trials is increasing, there is little guidance on which intercurrent event strategies should be used. The article by Fleming et al. seeks to address this gap....
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It seems bookdown is shutting down, and so I've migrated the free online version of Evaluating What Works here: dorothybishop-evaluating-what-works.share.connect.posit.cloud Hard copy also available here: www.routledge.com/Evaluating-W...
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Evaluating What Works: An Intuitive Guide to Intervention Research for Practitioners
Those who work in allied health professions and education aim to make people’s lives better. Often, however, it is hard to know how effective this work has been: would change have occurred if there wa...
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Paul Thompson @stat-pt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We're recruiting at Intellectual Disabilities Research Institute (IDRIS) @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPR817/a...
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Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry/Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry/Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at University of Birmingham
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
There was a great post by someone saying that choosing to use an LLM for coding is always like choosing to be the hare in the 'hare and tortoise'. You set off quickly but inevitably run into problems. Eventually your counterfactual tortoise self - who did by building knowledge - walks past.
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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats
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An R package for working with generalized additive models
Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.
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Learning Disability England @learningdiseng.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New Easy Read report on how COVID-19 affected people using social care, including people with learning disabilities & autistic people. By Professors Chris Hatton & Richard Hastings. tinyurl.com/3nxd847c
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INQ000616456 - Easy Read Expert Report for the UK Covid 19 Public Inquiry by Professor Chris Hatton and Professor Richard Hastings titled UK Covid-19 Inquiry Social Care in the UK: How the Covid-19 pa...
Easy Read Expert Report for the UK Covid 19 Public Inquiry by Professor Chris Hatton and Professor Richard Hastings titled UK Covid-19 Inquiry Social Care in the UK: How the Covid-19 pandemic affected...
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
www.ft.com/content/8778... Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS
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Royal Society prize winner returns award in protest over Elon Musk
Andrea Sella is latest scientist to express dismay over UK science academy’s refusal to criticise tech billionaire
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Vaso Totsika @vasototsika.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Men's mental health is an increasingly important area - please do consider taking part if you are a man 40-65 years old
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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
datamethods.org is a place where methodologists meet subject matter experts for in-depth discussions + Q&A related to study design, measurement, data analysis, interpretation, and more. Now on a new server with the latest version of discourse software. Come join us there. #StatsSky
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Datamethods Discussion Forum
This is a place for discussions and Q&A about data-related issues and quantitative methods including study design, data analysis, and interpretation.
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Brennan Kahan @brennankahan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW: CONSORT 2025 now published! Some notable changes: -items on analysis populations, missing data methods, and sensitivity analyses -reporting of non-adherence and concomitant care -reporting of changes to any study methods, not just outcomes -and lots of other things www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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CONSORT 2025 explanation and elaboration: updated guideline for reporting randomised trials
Critical appraisal of the quality of randomised trials is possible only if their design, conduct, analysis, and results are completely and accurately reported. Without transparent reporting of the met...
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Gary Collins @gscollins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social —> www.bmj.com/content/389/... #openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
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Peter Langdon @peterlangdon.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We’re back again this year showcasing excellent research involving people with intellectual disabilities and autistic people taking place across the Midlands! Thank you to our partners: NHS England, ADASS, NIHR RDN East and West Midlands, Reach-Out, University of Birmingham
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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...
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Time series in R and Stan using the mvgam package: hierarchical GAMs
YouTube video by Nicholas Clark
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Rushani Wijesuriya @rush-099.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial
Longitudinal studies are frequently used in medical research and involve collecting repeated measures on individuals over time. Observations from the same individual are invariably correlated and thu....
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