Statistics, medicine, and humanity

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

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