| Spring 2023 |
| January 2023 |
Is my study useless? Why researchers need methodological review boards |
Review methods, methodological reviews |
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Transparent communication of evidence does not undermine public trust in evidence |
Evidence communication, transparency, uncertainty, trust, trustworthiness, communication |
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The next generation of evidence-based medicine |
Clinical trials, clinical research |
| Autumn 2022 |
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December 2022
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Reflection on modern methods: risk ratio regression—simple concept yet complex computation |
Relative risk, regression, generalized linear models, epidemiology |
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Detectando patrones anómalos de publicación científica en España: Más sobre el impacto del sistema de evaluación científica |
Publicación científica, evaluación científica, editoriales científicas |
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A Framework for Causal Inference From Observational Data |
Causal inference, target trial emulation |
| November 2022 |
Reporting and data sharing level for COVID-19 vaccine trials: A cross-sectional study |
Vaccine trials, healthcare, data-sharing statements, VALUE |
|
On the Convergence of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Data Science |
Epidemiology, biostatistics, data science training and education, causal inference, study design, electronic medical records |
|
Why large language models should come with a content warning |
IA, GPT-3, language models |
| October 2022 |
Phases of methodological research in biostatistics - building the evidence base for new methods |
Methodological research, clinical research, empirical evidence |
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Modeling for Observational Treatment Comparisons |
Clinical trials, treatment comparisons |
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Introducing the FAIR Principles for research software |
Research software, FAIR |
|
Susie Bayarri, reina bayesiana |
Estadística bayesiana, estadística, matemáticas |
| September 2022 |
Statistical Analysis Solves Crimes |
Probability |
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Reproducibility of real-world evidence studies using clinical practice data to inform regulatory and coverage decisions |
Epidemiology, Outcomes research |
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Ten simple rules for teaching yourself R |
Human learning, Syntax, Twitter, Data visualization, Programming languages, Language, Internet, Workshops |
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Investigación en el ámbito académico: ¿por dónde empiezo? |
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El porqué de los desafíos criptográficos: conocerte a ti mismo, conocer a tu enemigo |
Tecnología, criptografía, misterios, juegos educativos, lógica, matemáticas, participación lectores, seguridad internet |
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The fraught quest to account for sex in biology research |
Hormones, sex, biology research, cardiac cells |
| Spring 2022 |
| July 2022 |
Ethics of Hype and Bias in Science |
Ethics, science, scientific integrity, bias, hype, publish, perish |
|
Self-reporting and screening: Data with right-censored, left-censored, and complete observations |
Current status data, left censoring, nonparametric estimation, right censoring, survival analysis |
|
Why we need data-literate citizens |
Envision, FutureOfEducation |
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Martha Aliaga, una vida dedicada a la didáctica de la estadística |
Didáctica de la ciencia, estadistica, matemáticas |
|
Actitud, cultura organizativa y buenas prácticas: las claves para la digitalización de la universidad |
Educación superior, universidad, CRUE Universidades, educación a distancia, aprendizaje en línea, educación en línea, universidad española |
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Risk of bias in studies on prediction models developed using supervised machine learning techniques: systematic review |
|
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Teaching Statistics and Data Analysis with R |
Data science education, higher education, R, statistics education research |
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Data provenance and integrity of health-care systems data for clinical trials |
|
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RStudio is becoming Posit |
Rstudio, Posit |
|
Raíz de 5: Nuestro pensamiento es bayesiano |
Podcast, bayesian |
| June 2022 |
The Mega Millions Lottery and Hypothesis Testing |
Hypothesis testing, p-value |
|
Sensitivity analysis in clinical trials: three criteria for a valid sensitivity analysis |
Clinical trials, sensitivity analysis |
|
¿Afecta la nota de la EBAU al índice de abandono universitario? |
Universidad, evaluación, EvAU, acceso a la universidad, selectividad |
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Is the future of peer review automated? |
Rigor, reproducibility, transparency, automated screening, peer review |
|
From Anna Menacher: A timeline of the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years |
|
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Making data visualization more accessible for blind and low-vision individuals |
Research, computer science and technology, assistive technology, data, design, human-computer interaction, software, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, School of Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF) |
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El sistema universitari català: dades i singularitats |
|
| May 2022 |
Exploratory analyses in aetiologic research and considerations for assessment of credibility: mini-review of literature |
|
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Clara Prats: «La diversidad de género enriquece la ciencia» |
Science, gender, education |
|
Unfair Comparisons? |
Randomised clinical trials, statistical inference, causal inference |
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One statistical analysis must not rule them all |
|
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Visualising harms in publications of randomised controlled trials: consensus and recommendations |
Harm, visualization, randomised controlled trials |
| April 2022 |
No se puede cambiar el azar |
Probability |
|
Friendship paradox (spanish / english) |
|
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Ten simple rules for finding and selecting R packages |
Software tools, data visualization, peer review, open source software, internet, citation analysis, metadata, source code |
|
Data Visualization Using R for Researchers Who Do Not Use R |
R, data visualization, open materials |
|
The Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic Evidences the Need to Transform Spain’s Public Health Education |
Covid, public health education, epidemiology and biostatistics, schools of public health, education impacts |
| March 2022 |
Ten simple rules for initial data analysis |
Metadata, data visualization, statistical data, reproducibility, data management, research integrity, semantics, statistical distributions |
|
Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs |
|
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From public health to personal finance, statistical literacy is essential for careers and everyday life |
Curriculum, statistics |
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The incremental value of the contribution of a biostatistician to the reporting quality in health research—A retrospective, single center, observational cohort study |
Citation analysis, research reporting guidelines, observational studies, randomized controlled trials, statistical methods, forecasting, medical risk factors, research quality assessm |
|
Correction of scientific literature: Too little, too late! |
COVID-19, pandemics, scientists, careers, peer review, pcientific publishing, quality control, scientific misconduct |
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An empirical analysis of journal policy effectiveness for computational reproducibility |
Physical sciences, social sciences, computer sciences |
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Exaggerated false positives by popular differential expression methods when analyzing human population samples |
|
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Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires |
Work, economics, social psychology |
| February 2022 |
The Data Visualization Tools Wars |
|
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The JuliaConnectoR: A Functionally-Oriented Interface for Integrating Julia in R |
Language bridge, R, Julia, deep learning, neural ordinary differential equations |
|
What are the Most Important Statistical Ideas of the Past 50 Years? |
History of statistics, data analysis, statistical computing |
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Analysis of 567,758 randomized controlled trials published over 30 years reveals trends in phrases used to discuss results that do not reach statistical significance |
Randomized controlled trials, language, linear regression analysis, confidence intervals, clinical trials, medical risk factors, peer review, test statistics |
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Comparison of Preregistration Platforms |
Preregistration |
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Testing the babble hypothesis: Speaking time predicts leader emergence in small groups |
Leader emergence, speaking time, sabble hypothesis, individual differences |
| January 2022 |
Credibility of scientific information on social media: Variation by platform, genre and presence of formal credibility cues |
Credibility, platform, scholarly communication, science communication, social media, Twitter |
|
Sample Size Justification |
Power analysis, sample size justification, study design, value of information |
|
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics: Just the Old Wine in New Wineskins? |
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), statistics, methodology, reporting guideline |
| Autumn 2021 |
| December 2021 |
The State of Open Data 2021 |
State of open data, open data, open science, figshare, digital science, Springer nature, open access, open data survey, FAIR data principles |
|
Statistics instruction on the rise as data drives more decisions |
Statistics, school |
|
Giving and taking: ethical treatment assignment in controlled trials |
Ethics, equipoise, placebo, informed consent, blinding |
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Overall and COVID-19-specific citation impact of highly visible COVID-19 media experts: bibliometric analysis |
COVID-19, citation impact, media experts |
|
Managing bioinformatics pipelines with R |
Source code, R environment |
|
EMA launches the Regulatory Science Research Needs initiative |
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Cómo el ataque de Pearl Harbor cambió la estadística de las pruebas diagnósticas |
Pruebas diagnósticas, sensibilidad, especificidad, curva ROC |
| November 2021 |
No time to die: An in-depth analysis of James Bond’s exposure to infectious agents |
Travel medicine, infectious diseases, sexual health, counterterrorism, espionage |
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Guidance for biostatisticians on their essential contributions to clinical and translational research protocol review |
Protocol, review, biostatistician, scientific rigor, translational research |
|
Probability and Statistical Inference: From Basic Principles to Advanced Models (book review) |
Probability, inference |
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Seven steps toward more transparency in statistical practice |
|
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Prediction of sports injuries in football: a recurrent time-to-event approach using regularized Cox models |
Shared frailty models, regularized Cox methods, sports injury prevention, survival analysis |
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How burnout and imposter syndrome blight scientific careers |
Careers, lab life, institutions |
|
A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review |
Peer-review, academic publishers, publication system |
| October 2021 |
The first malaria vaccine (article / map) |
Malaria, global health, infectious disease, vaccine |
|
Projecte DIVINE: estudiem l'evolució de les persones hospitalitzades per COVID-19 (online / pdf) |
COVID-19, DIVINE, multistate model |
|
Teach About Inequality With These 28 New York Times Graphs |
Inequalities, graphs |
|
Choice of Outcome in COVID-19 Studies and Implications for Policy: Mortality and Fatality |
Mortality, fatality, COVID-19, methods, policy, Missing Link Fallacy |
|
Modelling publication bias and p-hacking |
File drawer problem, fishing for significance, meta-analysis, questionable research practices, selection bias |
|
Prediction or causality? A scoping review of their conflation within current observational research |
Causality, etiology, prediction, methodology, epidemiology, scoping review |
|
A cross-sectional analysis of meteorological factors and SARS-CoV-2 transmission in 409 cities across 26 countries |
Climate sciences, epidemiology, risk factors, COVID-19 |
|
Statistics at the zoo |
Longitudinal data analysis, patterns, impact factor, zoo |
|
Toolkit para formación en ética de la bioinformática |
|
| September 2021 |
Graphical abstracts |
Graphical abstracts, visual abstracts |
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The statistical properties of RCTs and a proposal for shrinkage |
Achieved power, cochrane review, exaggeration, randomized controlled trial, type M error |
|
Causal analyses of existing databases: no power calculations required (contact with grbio@grbio.eu to access to the full text) |
Causal analysis, observational analysis, meta analysis |
|
Medical image editing in the latent space of Generative Adversarial Networks |
Deep learning, generative adversarial networks, medical image editing, histopathological images |
|
Archetypal analysis for ordinal data |
Archetypal analysis, ordinal data, ordered stereotype model, uneven spacing |
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Interobserver and Intertest Agreement in Telemedicine Glaucoma Screening with Optic Disk Photos and Optical Coherence Tomography |
Screening, agreement, glaucoma, optical coherence tomography, retinographs, telemedicine |
|
A class of two-sample nonparametric statistics for binary and time-to-event outcomes |
Clinical trials, mixed outcomes, multiple endpoints, multiple testing, non-proportional hazards,
survival analysis, weighted mean survival test |
|
What's going on in this graph? |
Graphs, time, pandemic |
|
The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life |
|
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Los Angeles County Predictive Modeling of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
COVID-19, hospital demand, SEIR |
| Spring 2021 |
| July 2021 |
Can SARS-CoV-2 Global Seasonality be Determined After One Year of Pandemic? |
COVID-19, seasonality |
|
Bias, precision and timeliness of historical (background) rate comparison methods for vaccine safety monitoring: an empirical multi-database analysis |
Vaccine safety, background rates, incidence, adverse event, surveillance |
|
Alexandra Elbakyan: “I thought Sci-Hub would become legal in a couple of years” (news and twitter thread) |
Sci-Hub, scientific papers, publishers |
|
Retrat alfabètic de Florence Nightingale |
Florence Nightingale, women, science |
|
Beware performative reproducibility |
|
| June 2021 |
Scale Fail |
COVID-19, vaccine, risk. |
|
Dynamics of HDI Index: Temporal Dependence Based on D-vine Copulas Model for Three-Way Data a la revista Social Indicators Research |
Copulas, longitudinal data, human development index, dependence. |
|
Methodology over metrics: Current scientific standards are a disservice to patients and society |
Research cuality, methodology, reporting. |
|
What Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Do |
Artificial intelligence |
|
Si no ho paga ningú, qui ho paga? Les Infraestructures de la Ciència Oberta |
Open science |
|
The Absurdity of Peer Review |
Review, pre-print |
|
Statistical programming: small mistakes, big impacts |
Programming, computation, statistics |
|
Consistency of causal claims in observational studies: a review of papers published in a general medical journal |
Observational study, longitudinal study, cohort study, causal statements |
|
Conceptual Thinking in Statistics and Data Science Education: Interactive Formative Assessment with Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects (MERLO) |
Conceptual understanding, education, simulations, MERLO, information quality, InfoQ |
|
Estimating the COVID-19 Spread Through Real-time Population Mobility Patterns: Surveillance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries |
COVID-19, transmission, digital public health, social distancing, policy, mobile data, estimate, real-time, pattern, surveillance, low and middle-income countries, emerging countries, database, surveillance |
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Adaptation of Drosophila subobscura chromosomal inversions to climatic variables: the Balkan natural population of Avala |
Drosophila, chromosomal inversions, adaptation, temperature, selection |
|
On the Convergence of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Data Science |
Epidemiology, biostatistics, data science, training and education, causal inference, study design, electronic medical records |
| May 2021 |
Researchers’ attitudes towards the h-index on Twitter 2007–2020: criticism and acceptance. |
h-index, twitter, research management, research evaluation, twitter academic research. |
|
AIDS and COVID: A tale of two pandemics and the role of statisticians (article, and discussion). |
AIDS, COVID-19, diagnostic testing, infectious disease modeling, pandemic. |
|
Social network size, loneliness, physical functioning and depressive symptoms among older adults: Examining reciprocal associations in four waves of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) |
Depressive symptoms, loneliness, older adults, physical functioning, social isolation. |
| April 2021 |
The p-value statement, five years on. Contact grbio@grbio.eu if you want access to the paper. |
p-value. |
|
Understanding Open Data. |
Fair data, open data. |
|
Ten Common Statistical Mistakes (article, and video). |
Statistics, mistakes. |
|
Design of phase III trials with long-term survival outcomes based on short-term binary results (article, and R package). |
Clinical trials, primary endpoint, survival, sample size. |
|
What It Takes to Give a Great Presentation. |
Presentation, tips. |
|
Using the Geometric Average Hazard Ratio in Sample Size Calculation for Time-to-event Data With Composite Endpoints. |
Treatment effect, composite endpoint, randomized controlled trial, progression-free survival, simulation, copula, non-proportional hazards. |
|
Informe: Científicas en cifras 2021. |
Sciestist, women. |
|
Quina és la situació de les joves investigadores a l'Estat espanyol? |
Sciestist, women. |
|
Multivariate survival analysis in big data: A divide-and-combine approach. Contact grbio@grbio.eu if you want access to the paper. |
Survival analysis, multivariate failure time data, bid data, risk factors, marginal model approach. |
|
Independent increments in group sequential tests: a review. |
Failure time data, interim analysis, longitudinal data, clinical trials, repeated significance tests, sequential methods. |
|
What jobs will be in greater demand after the pandemic? |
COVID-19, pandemic, jobs. |
|
Identification of ZBTB18 as a novel colorectal tumor suppressor gene through genome-wide promoter hypermethylation analysis. |
Colorectal cancer, zinc finger, ZBTB18, methylation, tumor suppressor. |
|
Change in Gap Perception within Current Practices in Assessing Students Learning Mathematics. |
Online education, mathematics, gap analysis method, student assessment, e-assessment. |
|
Phenotypic diversity and history of the Congo Basin populations: Equatorial Guinea, Bantu Speaking Central Africans and African Pygmies. |
Equatorial Africa basin, humans and environment, somatology, meta-analysis. |
|
Visceral Adipose Tissue Phospholipid Signature of Insulin Sensitivity and Obesity. |
Discordant phenotypes, insulin resistance, lipid remodeling, metabotype, metabolomics, phospholipids, obesity, diabetes, biomarker. |
|
A Checklist for statistical Assessment of Medical Papers (the CHAMP statement): explanation and elaboration. |
Methodology, statistics. |
| March 2021 |
World Happiness Report 2021 (news, report, and data). |
Happiest country, well-being. |
|
Papers related with the doctoral thesis of Evi Gkioni: "Improving the planning and monitoring of recruitment to clinical trials". (Paper 1 and paper 2). |
Recruitment, clinical trials, recruitment prediction. |
|
Tips to fight against Zoom fatigue. |
Video conference, fatigue. |
|
The 2021 International Prize in Statistics awarded to Nan Laird. |
Prize in statistics. |
|
Is the AstraZeneca vaccine secure? |
Vaccine, AstraZeneca, Oxford, COVID-19, blood clot. |
|
A therapeutic vaccine against HIV. Interview with Beatriz Mothe. |
HIV, vaccine, anti-retroviral, viral load, clinical trials. |
|
Preferences on Online Gambling Activities among Adolescents: A Review. |
Online gambling activities, adolescents, review, mental health, prevalence. |
|
How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV- and COVID-19. |
Epidemiological biases, selection bias, misclassification, measurement error, COVID-19, observational data. |
|
M.J. (Susie) Bayarri. Contact grbio@grbio.eu if you want access to the paper. |
Bayesian statistics, history in statistics, women. |
|
Assessment of transparency indicators across the biomedical literature: How open is open? |
Reproducibility in science, open database. |
| February 2021 |
Creating optimal conditions for reproducible data analysis in R with 'fertile' (article, and R package). |
R, reproducible data, common mistakes. |
|
Confused by conflicting career advice? That's inevitable for academics. |
Career in academics, success, advice. |
|
Data Literacy Charta (article, and charta). |
Data anslysis, data literacy, big data. |
|
In 2021, Statistician Continues to be a Best Job (article, and ranking). |
Statistician, job. |
|
Nepotistic journals: a survey of biomedical journals. |
Papers, editorials, questionable practices. |
|
MARLIT, una aplicació basada en la intel·ligència artificial per estudiar les macrodeixalles marines flotants. |
Web application, plastics in the sea, estimation. |
|
The natural history of symptomatic COVID-19 during the first wave in Catalonia. |
COVID-19, risk, hospitalisation, death, multistate model. |
| January 2021 |
What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? |
Causal inference, bootstrapping and simulation-bias inference, overparameterized models, multilevel models, exploratory data analysis. |
|
A priori estimation of sequencing effort in complex microbial metatranscriptomes. |
Metatranscriptome analysis, genes, simulated series. |
|
Bayesian statistics and modelling. |
Bayesian statistics, prior and posterior predictive checking, artificial intelligence. |
|
GAISEII: Pre-K-12 Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education II (news, and full guide). |
Framework for statistics, data science. |
|
Bootstrap: a small sample of ideas (keypoints, and teaching). |
Bootstrap, confidence interval. |
|
No more Matildas (appendix, and web). |
Women, science. |
|
Women's Advancement and Leadership in the Biomedical Research Centres of Catalonia. |
Women, leadership, biomedical research, scientific production. |
|
Statistics in Medicine Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary. |
Journal, statistics in medicine. |
|
Alfred Watson Memorial Lecture. |
1962, Hill's criteria. |
| Autumn 2020 |
| December 2020 |
Pfizer-Biontech: Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine (article, and video). |
COVID-19, vacinne, mRNA, Pfizer. |
|
AstraZeneca: Safety and efficacy of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222) against SARS-CoV-2: an interim analysis of four randomised controlled trials in Brazil, South Africa and the UK. |
COVID-19, vacinne, AstraZeneca. |
|
Are p-values Useful to Judge the Evidence Against the Null Hypotheses in Complex Clinical Trials? A Comment on "The Role of p-values in Judging the Strength of Evidence and Realistic Replication Expectations". |
P-value, null hypothesis, clinical trial. |
|
COVID-19 Data in the Classroom. |
COVID-19. |
|
Teaching Statistics during the COVID-19 Health Crisis. |
COVID-19. |
|
Which is the square root of 16? |
|
|
A priori estimation of sequencing effort in complex microbial metatranscriptomes (article, and flash review). |
Machine learning, NGS, metagenomics, metatrancriptomics, rarefaction curve, sample size, sequencing effort, simulation. |
|
How often do leading biomedical journals use statistical experts to evaluate statistical methods? The results of a survey. |
Biomedical journals, statistical experts. |
| November 2020 |
Statistics is for statisticians. |
COVID-19, hypothesis testing, inference, p-hacking. |
|
"A Vaccine Trial from A to Z" with a Postscript. |
COVID-19, vaccine, AstraZeneca, placebo-control trial, Vaccine Efficacy. |
|
Randomisation is not about balance, nor about homogeneity but about randomness. |
Clinical trials, balance, homogeneity. |
|
Sending me data in Excel (advice, and video-tweet). |
Dataset, tips, Excel. |
|
GitHub workflow for data science project proposals. |
Data science, R, RMarkdown. |
|
COVID-19: la malinterpretación de los datos de la pandemia daña la confianza del público. |
COVID-19, data, pandemic. |
|
Assessment of transparency indicators across the biomedical literature: how open is open? |
Reproducibility, science, open research, indicators of transparency. |
| October 2020 |
'Heard' Immunity? |
COVID-19, vaccine, clinical trial, Vaccine Efficacy. |
|
The worlwide clinical trial research response to the COVID-19 pandemic - the first 100 days. |
COVID-19, clinical research agenda, hydroxychloroquine. |
|
The history of statistics in a gif (text, and gif). |
Statistics, history. |
|
Celebramos el Día mundial de la Estadística. |
Statistics. |
|
La estadística puede ayudar a recuperar la confianza perdida durante la pandemia. |
Data, big data, statistics, COVID-19, data mining. |
|
Is there a role for statistics in artificial intelligence? |
Computers and society, artificial intelligence, machine learning. |
|
Semantic and cognitive tools to aid statistical science: replace confidence and significance by compatibility and surprise. |
Tests, p-value, confidence interval, Bayes factors, probability, interpretation. |
|
The 450 Movement (article, and tweet). |
|
|
Reference Collection to push back against "Common Statistical Myths". |
p-value, confidence interval, sample size, stepwise variable selection, post-hoc power, normality. |
| September 2020 |
Modeling the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Incubation Period: Impact on Quarantine Policy. |
COVID-19, generalized odds-rate class of models, incubation period, infectious disease, interval censoring, left censoring, quarantine policy. |
|
Some COVID-19 articles in Significance magazine (article 1, and article 2). |
COVID-19, open science, cause and effect. |
|
Centenary Rao (homage video, RSS news, a living legend, and Facebook group). |
Dr. Rao. |
|
Potential prescribing issues among older HIV-infected subjects in a Mediterranean cohor: Does the current prevalence give cause for concern? |
Antiretrovirals, HIV/AIDS, medication errors, patient safety, prescribing. |
|
Use of "normal" risk to improve understanding of dangers of COVID-19. |
COVID-19, risk of death, normal risk. |
|
Multimorbidity patterns in low-middle and high income regions: a multiregion latent class analysis using ATHLOS harmonised cohorts. |
Multimorbidity patterns, clusters, association. |
|
Methylation regulation of Antiviral host factors, Interferon Stimulated Genes (ISGs) and T-cell responses associated with natural HIV control. |
HIV, DNA methylation, antiretrovirals, HIV-specific T cell. |
|
Recent Developments in Clustering and Classification Methods. |
Unsupervised feature selection, histogram-valued data, compactness, hierarchical conceptual clustering, multi-role measure, visualization. |
| Spring 2020 |
| July 2020 |
How to Identify Flawed Research Before It Becomes Dangerous. |
COVID-19, flawed research. |
|
An invisible hand: Patients aren’t being told about the AI systems advising their care. |
Artificial inteligence, health system. |
|
Doug Altman: Driving critical appraisal and improvements in the quality of methodological and medical research. |
Prognosis research, regression modeling, reporting. |
| June 2020 |
FOBI: an ontology to represent food intake data and associate it with metabolomic data. |
Self-reporting methods, metabolomic techniques, Food-Biomarker Ontology. |
|
Exposure of zebrafish to elevated temperature induces sex ratio shifts and alterations in the testicular epigenome of unexposed offspring. |
Zebrafish, epigenetics, DNA methylation, sex ratio, transgenerational effects, global warming. |
|
Prediction, Estimation, and Attribution (article, discussion I, discussion II, and rejoinder). |
Black box, ephemeral predictors, random forests, surface plus noise. |
|
Talking about data (post I, and post II). |
Data, gather, compile, analyse, dips, slumps, growth, peaks. |
|
Patterns of care and dropout rates from outpatient mental healthcare in low-, middle- and high-income countries from the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative. |
Dropout, mental health, survival analysis, WMH surveys. |
|
Duplicated research (blog, and tweet). |
Similarities in papers. |
|
Universities will never be the same after the coronavirus crisis. |
COVID-19, policy, funding, education. |
|
¿Hacia una Universidad virtual? |
COVID-19, education. |
| May 2020 |
Flash reviews (article, and twitter fill). |
Report, editorial intervention, randomised trials, manuscripts. |
|
The chapter "A UAV-based 3D model for building condition monitoring" of the monograph "Research and modelling in civil engineering". |
Condition monitoring, unmanned aerial vehicles, inspection methodology, building facades. |
|
Why Test for Proportional Hazards? |
Cox proportional hazard model, survival analysis, Cox model, hazard ratio. |
| April 2020 |
Association of Premenopausal Risk Reducing Salpingo-oophorectomy With Breast Cancer Risk in BRCA1/2 Mutation Carriers: Maximizing Bias-Reduction. |
BRCA1/2, breast cancer risk, salpingo-oophorectomy, risk reduction methodology, multi-state model,systematic review. |
|
HIVconsv vaccines and romidepsin in early-treated HIV-1-infected individuals: Safety, immunogenicity and effect on the viral reservoir (study BCN02). |
Romidepsin, HDAC inhibitor, kick&kill strategy, HIVconsv, early-treatment. |
|
COVID-19 index of articles. |
COVID-19. |
|
Prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis of COVID-19: systematic review and critical appraisal. |
COVID-19, prediction model. |
|
Creating a Framework for Conducting Randomized Clinical Trials during Disease Outbreaks. |
COVID-19, vaccine, global health. |
|
Regulatory Science Strategy to 2025. |
|
| March 2020 |
Five tips for moving teaching online as COVID-19 takes hold. |
Education, online. |
|
We know enough now to act decisively against Covid-19. Social distancing is a good place to start. |
COVID-19, symptomatic cases, well-tested countries. |
|
A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data. |
COVID-19, non reliable data, pandemic. |
|
Coronavirus: ¿podría haber 100 veces más contagiados de los reportados? |
COVID-19, data, Spain, Madrid. |
|
Top 100 R resources on Novel COVID-19 Coronavirus. |
COVID-19, data science, health, science, technology, education. |
|
El tiempo de actuar con éxito se acaba. |
COVID-19, infectious diseases, respiratory diseases, and pandemic. |
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The Altmetric Top 100: the Top 100 papers 2019. |
Top 100, articles, 2019. |
| February 2020 |
Internet Gaming Disorder in Adolescents: Personality, Psychopathology and Evaluation of a Psychological Intervention Combined With Parent Psychoeducation. |
Adolescents, behavioral addiction, internet gaming disorder, parents, psychoeducational group, psychological treatment. |
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Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI (Nature new, and paper). |
Antibiotics, antibiotic resistance, antibiotic tolerance, machine learning, drug discovery. |
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What are fake interdisci-plinary collaborations and why do they occur? |
Collaboration, research integrity. |
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Working 9 to 5, not the way to make an academic living: observational analysis of manuscript and peer review submissions over time. |
Researchers, manuscripts, overwork. |
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A Novel Coronavirus Emerging in China - Key Questions for Impact Assessment. |
COVID-19, China, global health, primary care, infectious disease. |
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Combat burnout: respect the out-of-office message. |
Careers, lab life, research management. |
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Out of office replies and what they can say about you. |
Careers, lab life, research management. |
| January 2020 |
Global warming and chromosomal inversion adaptation in isolated islands: Drosophila subobscura populations from Madeira. |
Chromosomal inversion, climate change, selection, temperature, thermoregulatory behavior. |
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Eleven tips for working with large data sets. |
Computational biology and bioinformatics, computer science, information technology. |
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Embracing challenge: combining marathon training with graduate studies. |
Careers, lab life, biochemistry. |
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The pathetic p-value. |
Hypothesis test, p-value, significance, Bayesian approach, Fisher, Student. |
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Bad Pharma? |
Inference, naïve approaches. |
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Invalid inversion. |
Probability, conditional probability, joint probability, marginal probability, invalid inversion. |
