Statistics

Thoughts, essays, etc. A blog by Samuel Weisenthal.

• 1/25/2026

  Prediction models and counterfactuals

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  1/3/2026

  Policies, adjustment, decisions, sharks

• 12/12/2025

  On the acceptable range of model calibration

• 12/1/2025

  GPT-5 and medical decisions

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  11/9/2025

  Decision analysis and medical research

• 9/28/2025

  Image processing, chatbots, and “AI”

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  8/25/2025

  Decision analysis and the pharmaceutical industry

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  7/3/2025

  Should chatbots make medical decisions?

• 6/23/2025

  Rejoice on error

• 6/1/2025

  Ode to an appendix

• 5/25/2025

  Keep the real data in the loop

• 5/9/2025

  Scroll Breaker

• 5/4/2025

  Reflections on MD/PhD training

• 4/17/2025

  Variance, evidence, and using albumin for HRS AKI

• 4/6/2025

  Humanity’s fundamental DAG

• 4/4/2025

  Reflections on Relative Sparsity

• 3/27/2025

  Baseline serum creatinine

• 3/20/2025

  Propensity vs. outcome model

• 3/19/2025

  Inverse probability weighting as change of measure

• 3/9/2025

  Frequentism, Bayes, and the age-old question