Alex Thompson

[HealthEcon_MCR @HealthEcon_MCR]

NEW PAPER 👏👏 "Quantifying the impact of taking medicines for primary prevention: a time-trade off study to elicit direct treatment disutility in the UK" @kp170768 @gbrlrgrs @athomp_HE

Please read full paper here:
https://t.co/fKAI4fL3jA

[David Spiegelhalter @d_spiegel]

My take on Trust in Algorithms in Harvard Data Science Review: "we need to be able to assess the trustworthiness of claims made both about an algorithm, and those made by an algorithm" https://t.co/u0ctTZFyBt

[Maarten van Smeden @MaartenvSmeden]

NEW ARTICLE

Going to do a review of methods? You might be interested in reading our open access article. TL;DR: default search engines (e.g. Pubmed, Scopus) can be poor in retrieving articles on used methods, recovery rates may vary over time

https://t.co/03wAV8hVA4

[Cecile Janssens @cecilejanssens]

"A systematic review shows no performance benefit of machine learning over logistic regression for clinical prediction models." ML only performed better in studies with high risk of bias.
Detailed review by @GSCollins @ESteyerberg and others
https://t.co/yCYQcAqk64

[Brian Nosek (@[email protected]) @BrianNosek]

Published! "Many Analysts, One Dataset: Making transparent how variations in analytical choices affect results" 65 of us led by Raphael Silberzahn demonstrate the contingencies of analytic decisions on observed outcomes. https://t.co/7dbTlFo3qa (OA: https://t.co/trwVxM8URW)

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

Courage is a prerequisite for the practice of all other virtues otherwise one is virtuous only when virtue has no cost. #CSLewis