Open Science
Open Science is becoming standard. Not least, it is a prerequisite of many funding agencies that …
Package inflation!
Today I’m not talking about the increase in parcel post, but about statistical software …
What the hell is a “retrospective analysis”?
Many studies are titled …
You Only Live Twice?
Have you ever heard of competing risks in clinical research? It’s a relevant concept …
Website Relaunch
It has been a busy year so far and so I am not less pleased to present to you the relaunched website created by the wonderful design studio rothblau. I would…
Side Note: Analytical Overkill
With biomedical statistics, information can be abstracted from a wide range of sources to make data understandable and actionable. This step is reductionistic. For example…
Side Note: Know-it-alls
As an author, editor and methodological reviewer, I experience from time to time that only one methodological approach is considered correct…
Side Note: Clarity in Research
epi demos has helped a variety of experts to enhance their research reports. What often stands out is that even specialists with decades of experience in research…
Side Note: Creativity in Research
Despite all the necessary efforts to standardize clinical research, we should not forget that research per se is an inherently creative process and that exploratory analyses…
More Predictors: Slightly Better Predictions but Increased Complexity
In collaboration with the Swiss HIV Cohort Study and IBM Research Zurich, I have been involved in a large machine learning study to develop and validate different…