Statistics

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

• 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

• 5/10/2024

  Cutoffs and supplemental oxygen

• 4/21/2024

  This model is basically alive!

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  4/12/2024

  Relative sparsity poster

• 3/17/2024

  A graphical view of test characteristics

• 3/3/2024

  Test characteristics are probabilities!

• 2/25/2024

  The value of interpretability

• 1/21/2024

  Probability is not utility

• 11/26/2023

  Probability is everywhere