Evidence Based Medicine pills
Evidence Based Medicine pills
Bayes’ theorem. We describe the concept of conditional probability and the development of Bayes’ theorem, used to calculate the conditional probability of an event. Today we are going to see another of those examples where intuition about the value of certain…
Robust scale parameters. We describe robust scale parameters, such as the median absolute deviation or the winsorized standard deviation, less susceptible to extreme values.
Simple regression. The concept of regression is defined and the most used simple regression models are detailed: linear, logistic and proportional hazards regression.
Outliers. Outliers are values that seems inconsistent with the rest of the values, according to the assumed probability model that they follow in the sample.
The pie chart. A pie chart is a circle whorepresents the total of the data and to each category is assigned an area directly proportional to its frequency. Pies, how good they are! The problem is that, as you know, what is…