Catherine Best

Associate Professor, Institute of Social Marketing & Centre for Healthcare & Community Research, University of Stirling.

[University of Stirling @StirUni]

They’ve done it! Congratulations to Olympic Champions, Duncan Scott and Jack McMillan 🥇💚
@SportatStirling @ScottishSwim @Aquatics_GB

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

This is so great ..

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Quantiative twitter is fighting about confidence intervals again, so here’s a reminder: confidence intervals are like ring toss.

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

Quantiative twitter is fighting about confidence intervals again, so here’s a reminder: confidence intervals are like ring toss.

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

@Stata margins and marginsplot- couldn't interpret interaction terms in logistic regression without those little beauties. Lincom a close runner up

[Maarten van Smeden @MaartenvSmeden]

absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence
measurement error ≠ bias towards null
clinical trial ≠ study with patients
multivariate ≠ multivariable
95%CI ≠ 95% probability
p-value ≠ probability H0
correlation ≠ causation
significant ≠ relevant
bias ≠ error
odds ≠ risk

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

@quantitudepod The people my observational cohort is representative of- after the selection bias, attrition and item level non-response have done their thing

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

University of Stirling looking beautiful this afternoon

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

REMAP website is now live💥💥. Comprehensive resource on tobacco marketing in Latin America https://t.co/qHcqPNeQYO

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

First talk at NIHR Statistics Group. @Yoyopara1 @easduncan

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

@zcooper373 @quantitudepod This wins for me. I'm arranging for that to be engraved on my tombstone 😅😅

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

@Gozde786 Wow looks amazing 👏

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

And who said pie charts weren't a good way to communicate important information 😂😂

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

@alisonhackett6 @Greg_Mannion @KateClarke3 @AileenVIreland Congratulations 🎊 👏

[Institute for Social Marketing and Health @ismh_uos]

🚨JOB POSTING📢

Could you be the next @ismh_uos Hastings Fellow?

Still time to apply to work with us on research into alcohol, vaping, and commercial determinants of health.

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🗓️ Deadline: 3rd June 2024

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RTs appreciated.

[Kit Yates @Kit_Yates_Maths]

Vote out to help out.

[John Swinney @JohnSwinney]

This warning from @UofGVC - a most distinguished economist and University Principal - must be taken seriously and addressed by U.K. Government.

[Kate_OHara @Kate_OHara_]

What research methods are you learning about this summer? If you do one course, make it "Multilevel Statistical Modelling" with the excellent Paul Lambert at the lovely @EssexSumSchool . https://t.co/Kvmz08BuUj

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

@tom0mcewan @Yoyopara1 @StirUni Thank you!

[Catherine Best @cathbest]

@Yoyopara1 @StirUni Thank you David. That's so kind!