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by louden 6y ago
Yes. Bishops in the US closed parishes in March. The Pope granted a dispensation so that Catholics do not have the obligation to attend Mass during Lent and Holy Week.
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by louden 7y ago
One use case I have is embedding statistical calculations in larger applications. Calling R from the language the application is written in is a lot better than rewriting the statistical calculation in that language, especially when it is
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by louden 7y ago
You are comparing a program where the benefits vastly outweigh the cost to a program where the benefit is mostly speculative and the cost known. The cost of full body imaging is not just in the scan itself but in the procedures that follow
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by louden 7y ago
People have commited suicide because of medical test results that turned out to be wrong. A decision has to be made about how many tests are performed and under what conditions. Unfortunately, that will cause harm to people no matter wher
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by louden 7y ago
In medicine, there are physically harmless tests that can still cause harm. Full body scans are one of them. If something is found, it will likely have an emotional impact on the patient. Not all people are equally rational. Not all peo
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by louden 7y ago
More data is not always better. The collection process itself can be dangerous or unpleasant for the patient. Several years ago I worked on a study looking at the spread of bacterial lung infections in long term hospital patient. In orde
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by louden 7y ago
When I was learning undergraduate mathematical statistics, my professor made it a point to connect the links between linear models and many different tests. In the back of Statistical Inference by Casella and Berger, there is a great chart
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On Rising Up Against Statistical Significance(loudenanalytics.com)
2 points by louden 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What do you use to ensure your data is correct?
3 points by louden 8y ago|0 comments
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by louden 8y ago
The beauty of R (and Python) is the ecosystem, not necessarily the language. Most statisticians want libraries that they can use to do the modeling so that they can focus their time on the data, not the programming.
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by louden 8y ago
I imagined that would be the case, but don't have the CS background to prove one way or the other. I am currently learning OCaml and would love to use it more, but my job keeps me tied to R, SAS and Python.
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What I Would Like to See in a Type System(loudenanalytics.com)
1 points by louden 8y ago|3 comments
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by louden 8y ago
It is much more than a lack of maintenance. The weight of the cargo, the temperature of the road, the way the cargo is distributed in/on the trailer and manufacture defects can all contribute to blowouts of servicable tires. Those is
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by louden 8y ago
It would be nice to see the sensitivity and specificity of the technique and for humans. False positives and false negatives are not equal in medicine, so we should report in such a way that people can evaluate them. In this type of cancer
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by louden 8y ago
Her consent would also be needed.
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by louden 8y ago
Even when we have whatever technology would make heathcare less limited, there will need to be ways to measure the prognosis of the patient. Otherwise we would be giving very unpleasant treatments to patients who only need palliative care
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by louden 8y ago
> It's great but with healthcare I don't think people should be treated as dollar signs. These kinds of models are also great for triage. Healthcare is a limited resource, especially in trauma situations which have been using
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by louden 8y ago
It is the same in the US. All trucks that transport across state lines has to have an electronic log. Tickets issued to the driver can be noted on the saftey record of the company and if there are enough violations, especially of certain
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by louden 8y ago
Truckers need $750k of liability insurance (but usually have $1M). For individual drivers, they are required to have liability, but it varies by state (and in some places a lot of people flaunt the law).
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Ask HN: What does your project management tools look like for data science?
2 points by louden 8y ago|0 comments
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by louden 9y ago
> For instance, in 2013, the Obama administration mandated that copies of research conducted through federal agencies must be uploaded to free repositories within 12 months of publishing. All federally funded research in the US is mandat
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The Bayesian Approach to Sample Size Calculations(blog.studydesign.io)
1 points by louden 9y ago|0 comments
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by louden 9y ago
StudyDesign.io provides a single place where statistical calculations for the design of experiments, such as sample size calculations and subject randomization, can be performed.
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Show HN: StudyDesign.io – Study Design and Sample Size Tools(studydesign.io)
2 points by louden 9y ago|1 comments
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by louden 9y ago
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (US Based) As a data scientist with eight years of experience, I can take raw data, derive insights from them and turn them in to/embed them in production grade applications for business use. My goal with any pro
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by louden 10y ago
The methodology they used seems very good and the fact that they share the code is excellent. However, in a study like this, data quality is likely going to be a problem. Collecting good data about the shootings themselves is incredibly di
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by louden 10y ago
Hispanics were in the study (see the Research Objectives) and have similar results to blacks. They just were not called out in the abstract.
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by louden 10y ago
'We are rigorous on code reviews' would be a better approach. We don't have to be jerks to make sure that code is up to standards.
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by louden 10y ago
I have been on the other side of the table and I'm sure I came off as indifferent. The problem is, I have been thrown into the interview as an interviewer multiple times with about 1 hour notice when I have many other things to focus
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by louden 10y ago
Candidate 1. Having a person who is hard to work with can be demoralizing to the team he is working with which will lead others to loose productivity. Nobody is good enough to justify making the work environment toxic.

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