A recent post pointed us to a great talk that elegantly described how inferences from a trial could be analyzed with a purely resampling-based approach. The talk uses data from a paper that considered the association between beer consumption and mosqu…
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Example 10.4: Multiple comparisons and confidence limits
A colleague is a devotee of confidence intervals. To him, the CI have the magical property that they are immune to the multiple comparison problem– in other words, he feels its OK to look at a bunch of 95% CI and focus on the ones that appear to exc…
Example 9.35: Discrete randomization and formatted output
A colleague asked for help with randomly choosing a kid within a family. This is for a trial in which families are recruited at well-child visits, but in each family only one of the children having a well-child visit that day can be in the study. The…