April 19, 2016

Reminder of epidemiology problems

Bad science

James Heathers' graphic, and the one he alluded to

Positive predictive value

Preregistration

Badges to fix science

Economist on positive predictive value and replication

Slide with R Output

summary(cars)
##      speed           dist       
##  Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2.00  
##  1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26.00  
##  Median :15.0   Median : 36.00  
##  Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 42.98  
##  3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56.00  
##  Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120.00

Slide with Plot