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Bayesian Logistic Regression
R
logistic regression
bayesian
When I was recently analyzing cutoff points for a three-arm study, I noticed that the treatment effect in one arm (Arm B) as compared to control (Arm A) was affected by the…
Jul 3, 2026
Cutting with Trees
CART
R
simulation
p value
As I have mentioned before, the most useful information statistics can provide us is a measure of uncertainty in a result. Arguably the most common way that researchers…
Jan 1, 2017
Estimating the Unique Values in a Set
R
combinatorics
simulation
A friend asked me to help him figure out some probabilities related to microwell plates that he was analyzing in his lab. A 90 well plate was filled from a mixed sample of…
Dec 1, 2016
Conditional MLE Variance
R
simulation
MLE
casi
The most challenging (and useful) work in statistics comes not from trying to estimate a value, but from estimating the
accuracy
of that value. The most famous example of…
Nov 1, 2016
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