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The New York Times: The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America by Quoctrunk Bui and Claire Cain Miller
The Age That Women Have Babies: How a Gap Divides America
Biostatistics vs. Lab Research
“How not to collaborate with a biostatistician. This is what happens when two people are speaking different research languages! My current workplace is nothing like this, but I think most biostatisticians have had some kind of similar experiences like this in the past!”
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YouTube: Biostatistics vs. Lab Research by JavaMama926
Reporting Guidelines for Main Study Types
This site has reporting guidelines for all types of studies. These are checklists for writing all parts of a paper on these various study types.
CONSORT is for clinical trials and STROBE is for observational studies.
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Equator Network: Reporting guidelines for main study types
Invalidating Bloodletting with Science
Blood on the Tracks – Podcast Episode 38
Learn about a piece of epidemiological history: one of the earliest examples of population-level clinical studies influencing medical practice. This podcast tells the story of how French physician Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis studied a group of patients and ended up discovering quantitative evidence on the detriment of bloodletting. Learning the history helps place these tools in a broader context, which isn’t crucial, but interesting nonetheless.
The first population study in history was born out of a dramatic debate involving leeches, “medical vampires,” professional rivalries, murder accusations, and, of course, bloodletting, all in the backdrop of the French Revolution. The second of a multipart series on the development of population medicine, this episode contextualizes Pierre Louis’ “numerical method,” his famous trial on bloodletting, and the birth of a new way for doctors to “know”.
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The Expanding Scope of Psychiatric Epidemiology in the 21st Century
“The series of reviews commissioned by SPPE over the past year shed important insights on the current state of psychiatric epidemiology [1-5]. Our reading of this series has led us into discussions of the scope and goals of our discipline, and how, within a historical context, it is expanding in both predicted and unforeseen ways. In this editorial we first reflect on the history of our field, and how the wealth of information in these reviews provides insight into newly emerging directions of inquiry. Then we discuss major advances and remaining challenges in the field not covered in the series. Finally, we consider the overall scope and future directions of psychiatric epidemiologic inquiry in the years to come.”
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NCBI: The expanding scope of psychiatric epidemiology in the 21st century
Simpson’s Paradox
From Wikipedia…
“Simpson’s paradox, or the Yule–Simpson effect, is a phenomenon in probability and statistics, in which a trend appears in several different groups of data but disappears or reverses when these groups are combined. It is sometimes given the descriptive title reversal paradox or amalgamation paradox.”
This seems counterintuitive, but the 5 minute video below explains the concept well.
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Wikipedia: Simpson’s paradox
Minute Physics: Simpson’s Paradox
Field Epidemiology Manual
A set of training materials for professionals working in intervention epidemiology, public health microbiology and infection control and hospital hygiene.
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Industry Paying Doctors Raises Drug Costs
Physician Payments from Industry Are Associated with Greater Medicare Part D Prescribing Costs
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JAMA: Physician Payments from Industry Are Associated with Greater Medicare Part D Prescribing Costs
A Dictionary of Epidemiology (6 ed.)
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Oxford Reference: A Dictionary of Epidemiology (6 ed.)
American Journal of Epidemiology: A Dictionary of Epidemiology, Sixth Edition Edited by Miquel Porta
