We've had a fantastic response to the workshop. In just a few days of public advertisement (I firstly posted about it and then advertised on allstat and HEALTHECON-ALL) we got 65 registration, as of today. We have provisionally set out 100 "t...
We've had a fantastic response to the workshop. In just a few days of public advertisement (I firstly posted about it and then advertised on allstat and HEALTHECON-ALL) we got 65 registration, as of today. We have provisionally set out 100 "t...
I've received a rather formal email (addressed to "Dear Prof Baio"!) by my good friend Andreas, asking me to advertise a position they have in the Dutch office of Mapi, a consultancy company working in the area of health economic evaluation.Mapi and us...
For quite some time now, Kobi (who's just turned 4) has been kind of obsessed with Monster University. In fact, all he really cares about is one particular scene in which, as part of the "scare games", the monsters have to run through a corridor while ...
I only half-listened to this story on More or Less earlier today, but I think it's kind of amusing (if it wasn't kind of sad for the implications it has...).Apparently, there's a myth which is cyclically resuscitated (mainly by politicians) that the do...
Our department has just been awarded two NIHR MSc studentships in Medical Statistics. In fact, we've been successful in securing funds for the next 3 years (2 studentships per year). This is kind of cool $-$ we're already increasing the numbe...
One of the things that fills my Januaries and Februaries is the preparation of the in-course assessment (ICA) and final exam, for the course I teach at UCL.This year is the first time I'm teaching on the new module on Bayesian methods in heal...
To continue with the weirdest week in terms of emails, I have received one today that says: Dear Dr. Baio,I represent XXX (an imprint of YYY). We are looking to publish books in aviation that are scientific, academic or professional in natur...
We (as in Significance, in partnership with the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society) have just launched the 2016 Young Statisticians Writing Competition. The competition is open to any young statistician, regardless o...
Earlier today I've seen this post about Frank Wilcoxon's work on non-parametric statistics, on the Significance website. I've only very recently become involved in using some non-parametric methods (notably for our work on the EVPPI...
A couple of months back I talked at the launch of the Trial series on the Stepped Wedge Designed, on which I have worked together with a number of colleagues at UCL and LSHTM. Jennifer, who's one of the authors of the series and is doing her ...
