Statistics

Thoughts, essays, etc by Samuel Weisenthal

• 6/11/2026

  The information mismatch

• 5/31/2026

  UWorld is not a hobby

• 5/27/2026

  Reasoning, clauses, and terminology

• 5/15/2026

  What shared decision making is not

• 5/13/2026

  The AI Lie

• 5/6/2026

  Utility: difficult to measure, easy to set…

• 5/5/2026

  Imitation, AGI, and medical decision making

• 5/2/2026

  Metaphysics?

• 4/22/2026

  Generative LLMs and medical triage decision making

• 4/9/2026

  A consensus on causality?

• 3/29/2026

  Subjective hypocrisy

• 3/25/2026

  Why work with a statistician?

• 3/15/2026

  The match

• 3/13/2026

  Automation vs. invention

• 3/13/2026

  Action-conditioned world models

• 3/8/2026

  IWD26

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  2/10/2026

  Safe use of generative LLMs in medicine

• 2/6/2026

  Ouroboros 

• 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 the use of 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

• 3/2/2025

  Patient-specific statistics are key

• 2/16/2025

  Standard deviation of a lab value

• 1/28/2025

  Clinical trials and decision analysis

• 1/26/2025

  Peeling away complexity

• 1/4/2025

  What to do about addictive apps?

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  12/15/2024

  TikTok, Reeboks, and cigarettes

• 9/29/2024

  Terminology matters

• 8/21/2024

  Don’t hate the p-value…

• 6/9/2024

  From data science to statistics in an academic medical center

• 5/25/2024

  Read (questions) around your patients

• 5/23/2024

  Hallucination, extrapolation, and variance

• 5/12/2024

  Recommender systems