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Open Access: The effect of a constraint on the maximum number of controls matched to each treated subject on the performance of full matching on the propensity score when estimating risk differences
11th January 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from Statistics in Medicine and considers using a series of Monte Carlo simulations to evaluate...
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Layman’s abstract for Pharmaceutical Statistics paper on a stochastically curtailed two‐arm randomised phase II trial design for binary outcomes
8th January 2021
Each week, we will be publishing layman’s abstracts of new articles from our prestigious portfolio of journals in statistics. The aim is to highlight the latest research to a broader audience in an...
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Layman’s abstract for Pharmaceutical Statistics paper on recurrent time‐to‐event models with ordinal outcomes
6th January 2021
Each week, we will be publishing layman’s abstracts of new articles from our prestigious portfolio of journals in statistics. The aim is to highlight the latest research to a broader audience in an...
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Statistics in Medicine Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
4th January 2021
Issue 40:1 marks the beginning of the 40th year of Statistics in Medicine. It is an opportunity to acknowledge the founding editors, Ted Colton, Laurence Freedman and Tony Johnson, and their vision...
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Open Access: Doug Altman: Driving critical appraisal and improvements in the quality of methodological and medical research
4th January 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from Biometrical Journal and discusses the contributions of Doug Altman in improving the quality...
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution Virtual Issue on Machine Learning
24th December 2020
Methods in Ecology and Evolution has just published a Machine Learning Virtual Issue. This collection showcases exciting advances and applications of machine learning across a range of ecological...
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RSS Statistics of the Year 2020
18th December 2020
The Royal Statistical Society have announced its 2020 Statistics of the Year today. The winners are: International Statistic of the Year: 332 days - the length of time between scientists...
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ITOR: Call for Papers for Special Issue on “OR in Healthcare”
17th December 2020
The International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will publish a special issue on OR in Healthcare at the occasion of the 22nd Triennial Conference of the International Federation of...
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ANZSC 2021 – Modelling Data For a Brighter Future – going online
10th December 2020
The 2021 Australian and New Zealand Statistical Conference will now take place online from 5 to 9 July 2021. This conference brings together three leading statistical communities – the...
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Biometrical Journal Publishes Open Access Articles on Nowcasting Covid-19 in Germany
8th December 2020
Biometrical Journal has just published two Open Access articles about nowcasting in the context of Covid-19 in Germany. Both articles have lay abstracts, reproduced below. The first paper entitled...
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