Epidemiology

The Bradford Hill viewpoints are commonly used as a checklist to argue for causality when randomized trials aren't possible. However, the originator of these viewpoints never intended for them to be used this way. In this post, I examine the shortcomings of using these viewpoints as a checklist in the real world.

A look at a time when Bayesian data analysis went off the rails.

The number needed to treat is a popular statistic used in medicine, but it has several problems associated with the way it is used and in this blog post, I discuss some of those problems and possible solutions.