Your first manuscript will be be very hard The first manuscript you’ll ever write is probably best described as a ‘slog’. It’ll take 2-3 times longer than you expect. This’ll be from a few different reasons: Here’s a resource that can help I developed this generic research manuscript over several years of slogging through first …
Category Archives: Epidemiology and biostatistics
Use Stata to download the NY Times COVID-19 database and render a Twitter-compatible US mortality figure
Note: this code probably doesn’t work anymore with changes in the NY Times database. I’m keeping it here for historical purposes (4/22/2022). Here’s the figure! Code follows Comments are in-line below. Some unique strategies in this code: This will automatically download the latest NY Times dataset, but the date of “last day of follow-up” needs …
The confusion nomenclature of epidemiology and biostatistics
This should be more simple. Epidemiology and biostatistics are awash with synonyms and each institution has its own preferred nomenclature to describe the same general concepts. I started this page as a central place to document the various terms by concept. I’ll plan on revisiting and updating over time. Regression Fundamentals You probably learned the …
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