tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post4011929671062457879..comments2024-03-06T13:50:29.718+05:30Comments on E's flat, ah's flat too: Ad-hoc statisticsRahul Siddharthanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-4646083182950942742010-06-10T20:19:35.040+05:302010-06-10T20:19:35.040+05:30Rahul:
You bring up several interesting points, n...Rahul:<br /><br />You bring up several interesting points, not the least of which is that it's often very hard to decide the right numerical quantity to answer a question stated in plain English.<br /><br />The analysis about statistical significance is interesting, but it seems to me that selection bias could be a more fundamental issue. AZT was presumably prescribed early to patients with worse health, perhaps a lower CD4 count. So it's quite possible that the reason for more deaths in the "lmm" group was that they were less healthy to start with. Perhaps the study already accounted for this; were the patients matched on CD4 and other health factors when they were enrolled in the study?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-15000360473061113202010-05-07T10:29:03.505+05:302010-05-07T10:29:03.505+05:30km - Well, it's hardly newspaper material, but...km - Well, it's hardly newspaper material, but I may flesh it out and clean it up a bit and send it elsewhere.Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3112258799568696095.post-31107550076408907592010-05-06T22:34:24.589+05:302010-05-06T22:34:24.589+05:30Rahul:
You should write this as a column in a ne...Rahul: <br /><br />You should write this as a column in a newspaper. (Assuming that newspapers still cover serious science stories. Ha.)<br /><br />Fantastic stuff.kmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16040339235134145847noreply@blogger.com