January 29, 2015

Briefly

  • “When 2000 people take aspirin for one year, one heart attack is prevented.” A story on absolute risk and number-needed-to-treat, at the NY Times Upshot blog.  They introduce this as related to personalised medicine, but it’s really not.
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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »