Statistics, medicine, and humanity

Thoughts, essays, etc by Samuel Weisenthal

Clinical trials and decision analysis

1/28/2025
Decision analysis defines roles in a malpractice trial

1/27/2025
Peeling away complexity

1/26/2025
What to do about addictive apps?

1/4/2025
TikTok, Reeboks, and cigarettes

12/15/2024
The kindness of decision analysis

12/14/2024
Decision analysis and the real world

12/8/2024
Refuge for those in the Middle East

11/10/2024
Progress is often nonlinear

11/8/2024
2020

11/6/2024
Terminology matters

9/29/2024
Don’t hate the p-value…

8/21/2024
The roles assigned by decision analysis

8/17/2024
Decision analysis (a probabilistic treatment)

7/14/2024
From data science to statistics in an academic medical center

6/9/2024
Read (questions) around your patients

5/25/2024
Hallucination, extrapolation, and variance

5/23/2024
Recommender systems

5/12/2024
Cutoffs and supplemental oxygen

5/10/2024
This model is basically alive!

4/21/2024
Relative sparsity poster

4/12/2024
A graphical view of test characteristics

3/17/2024
Test characteristics are probabilities!

3/3/2024
The value of interpretability

2/25/2024
Wonderful search engine for rare genetic syndromes

2/18/2024
How I read math

2/11/2024
“Good” is in expectation

2/4/2024
Probability is not utility

1/21/2024
Probability is everywhere

11/26/2023
ChatGPT, reasoning, and medical diagnosis

11/26/2023
PPV and risk calculators

11/12/2023
Utility before probability

10/29/2023
Probability is more intuitive

10/22/2023
Learn the language

10/1/2023
Model biomarkers directly

9/10/2023
Lay abstract for relative sparsity!

9/6/2023
Ideal estimand for a trial

8/20/2023
Bleeding vs. clotting

7/30/2023
The added utility from ordering a test

7/16/2023
Relative sparsity for medical decision problems

6/20/2023
Counterfactuals and expected utility theory

6/11/2023
Decision analysis reveals complexity

6/4/2023
The counterfactual must be recorded

5/21/2023
Responsibilities and protection associated with decision analysis

5/14/2023
History of decision analysis

4/23/2023
Why are all confounders needed?

4/16/2023
Whose reward are we optimizing, anyway?

4/9/2023
Estimating expected reward using data

4/2/2023
Some benefits of decision analysis

3/26/2023
Difficulties with decision analysis

3/19/2023