Taya Collyer
@tayacollyer.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood biostatistician.
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
April 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Reposted by Taya Collyer
New #preprint with @nicolewhite.bsky.social and @tayacollyer.bsky.social. We examined if Australian ethics committees use qualified statistical expertise. Our results revealed a large variation in practice, with some committees using qualified statisticians […] (1 of 4)
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January 31, 2025 at 3:01 AM
New #preprint with @nicolewhite.bsky.social and @tayacollyer.bsky.social. We examined if Australian ethics committees use qualified statistical expertise. Our results revealed a large variation in practice, with some committees using qualified statisticians […] (1 of 4)
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At the stage of data analysis where I don't even know how many people are in the cohort, nothing is consistent and nothing adds up 👍
(Been around long enough to know this happens on every single project with big, messy, administrative data)
(Been around long enough to know this happens on every single project with big, messy, administrative data)
a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .
ALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .
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December 12, 2024 at 11:27 PM
At the stage of data analysis where I don't even know how many people are in the cohort, nothing is consistent and nothing adds up 👍
(Been around long enough to know this happens on every single project with big, messy, administrative data)
(Been around long enough to know this happens on every single project with big, messy, administrative data)
December 9, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Was asked to give stats advice on an RCT of stem cells from placental tissue.
I sat in the meeting, 30 weeks pregnant, while (male) PIs discussed logistics of getting my donated placenta across state lines so it could be included.
No one asked my thoughts. I have never felt so invisible.
#episky
I sat in the meeting, 30 weeks pregnant, while (male) PIs discussed logistics of getting my donated placenta across state lines so it could be included.
No one asked my thoughts. I have never felt so invisible.
#episky
December 1, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Taya Collyer
In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back.
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Reference Collection to push back against "Common Statistical Myths"
Note: This topic is a wiki, meaning that this main body of the topic can be edited by others. Use the Reply button only to post questions or comments about material contained in the body, or to sugge...
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November 12, 2024 at 6:19 AM
In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back.
discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...
discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...
Ok I don't know what is happening but I'm grateful for all the new followers!
Get ready for some cheerful biostats snark in your feed! 🏆
Get ready for some cheerful biostats snark in your feed! 🏆
November 1, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Ok I don't know what is happening but I'm grateful for all the new followers!
Get ready for some cheerful biostats snark in your feed! 🏆
Get ready for some cheerful biostats snark in your feed! 🏆
This is so important. Routine, unthinking adjustment for race is a really bad habit.
In peer review I have started asking authors to outline the explicit hypothesis about race, or remove race from multivariable analyses.
(So far everyone has responded by removing race)
#episky #statsky
In peer review I have started asking authors to outline the explicit hypothesis about race, or remove race from multivariable analyses.
(So far everyone has responded by removing race)
#episky #statsky
Race and lung function equation: The use of the race-neutral equation could increase annual disability payments by 17%, or $1.1 billion, for Black veterans and drop by about 1%, or > $500 million, for White veterans. #Racism
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www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations | NEJM
Adjustment for race is discouraged in lung-function testing, but the implications
of adopting race-neutral equations have not been comprehensively quantified. We obtained
longitudinal data from 369...
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October 3, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Crikey this is so true. I went too low with a recent paper and the review was literal gibberish. Parsing and responding to gibberish is exhausting...
#academia
#academia
#2: Don’t assume a lower-ranked journal will be less work. The bar for an R&R may be lower, but the number and difficulty of things you will be asked to do may not be.
September 26, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Crikey this is so true. I went too low with a recent paper and the review was literal gibberish. Parsing and responding to gibberish is exhausting...
#academia
#academia
Reposted by Taya Collyer
Real conversation from biostat consult (outcome was measured on discharge from hospital):
Biostat: 'I notice you excluded the participants who died?'
Investigator: 'Yes, because there was no outcome'
Biostat: 'I would argue that there is an outcome...'
#statsky #biostats
Biostat: 'I notice you excluded the participants who died?'
Investigator: 'Yes, because there was no outcome'
Biostat: 'I would argue that there is an outcome...'
#statsky #biostats
September 17, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Reviewing a study which treated death and stenting as equivalent in survival analysis.
Just want to share that with the group. 💣
#statsky
Just want to share that with the group. 💣
#statsky
September 11, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Reviewing a study which treated death and stenting as equivalent in survival analysis.
Just want to share that with the group. 💣
#statsky
Just want to share that with the group. 💣
#statsky
Fun Thursday Problem: Cohort N=3960, but dataset has 4,503 unique IDs in it.
(I set up the cohort and dataset from a starting point of 551,176 presentations. I have no one to blame but myself 😜)
#statsky
(I set up the cohort and dataset from a starting point of 551,176 presentations. I have no one to blame but myself 😜)
#statsky
September 5, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Fun Thursday Problem: Cohort N=3960, but dataset has 4,503 unique IDs in it.
(I set up the cohort and dataset from a starting point of 551,176 presentations. I have no one to blame but myself 😜)
#statsky
(I set up the cohort and dataset from a starting point of 551,176 presentations. I have no one to blame but myself 😜)
#statsky
I feel we need a #biostats feed... for bringing together the crew from Ye Olde StatsTwitter.
I do not know how to make a feed, but if no one else does it I will try next week!
#statsky #academicsky
I do not know how to make a feed, but if no one else does it I will try next week!
#statsky #academicsky
August 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM
I feel we need a #biostats feed... for bringing together the crew from Ye Olde StatsTwitter.
I do not know how to make a feed, but if no one else does it I will try next week!
#statsky #academicsky
I do not know how to make a feed, but if no one else does it I will try next week!
#statsky #academicsky
This week I have been called Tara, Tanya and Tayla in email correspondence by other academics. It is a vibe!
#academicsky
#academicsky
August 23, 2024 at 12:11 AM
This week I have been called Tara, Tanya and Tayla in email correspondence by other academics. It is a vibe!
#academicsky
#academicsky
Reposted by Taya Collyer
Statisticians! Please use hashtags like
#stats, so your work or question or idea appears in the StatsSky feed and can be found by people interested in that topic!
And please promote other people's work there too, especially if they aren't typically represented in science feeds.
#stats, so your work or question or idea appears in the StatsSky feed and can be found by people interested in that topic!
And please promote other people's work there too, especially if they aren't typically represented in science feeds.
June 27, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Statisticians! Please use hashtags like
#stats, so your work or question or idea appears in the StatsSky feed and can be found by people interested in that topic!
And please promote other people's work there too, especially if they aren't typically represented in science feeds.
#stats, so your work or question or idea appears in the StatsSky feed and can be found by people interested in that topic!
And please promote other people's work there too, especially if they aren't typically represented in science feeds.
Reposted by Taya Collyer
"What's the aim of your analysis? What is your research question"
Clinician who fit 14 versions of the same regression and came to me for help: "This wasn't a part of the original project. I just wanted to see if anything was significant. I don't really have an aim."
#biostatistics #academia
Clinician who fit 14 versions of the same regression and came to me for help: "This wasn't a part of the original project. I just wanted to see if anything was significant. I don't really have an aim."
#biostatistics #academia
June 18, 2024 at 6:05 AM
"What's the aim of your analysis? What is your research question"
Clinician who fit 14 versions of the same regression and came to me for help: "This wasn't a part of the original project. I just wanted to see if anything was significant. I don't really have an aim."
#biostatistics #academia
Clinician who fit 14 versions of the same regression and came to me for help: "This wasn't a part of the original project. I just wanted to see if anything was significant. I don't really have an aim."
#biostatistics #academia
Reposted by Taya Collyer
"I did an analysis for the director of a clinical group at my hospital and they published it without naming me, or allowing me to see/edit the manuscript.
They cheerfully told me it had been published when I ran into them in the carpark about 3 months later."
They cheerfully told me it had been published when I ran into them in the carpark about 3 months later."
June 6, 2024 at 2:01 AM
"I did an analysis for the director of a clinical group at my hospital and they published it without naming me, or allowing me to see/edit the manuscript.
They cheerfully told me it had been published when I ran into them in the carpark about 3 months later."
They cheerfully told me it had been published when I ran into them in the carpark about 3 months later."
👉 (bio)statistician with an axe to grind?
👉 Want to anonymously vent about a tough experience?
👉Was the grant due tomorrow?
🏆statanon.bsky.social is live! Email your gripes to [email protected] or send a DM
#statistics #academia
👉 Want to anonymously vent about a tough experience?
👉Was the grant due tomorrow?
🏆statanon.bsky.social is live! Email your gripes to [email protected] or send a DM
#statistics #academia
June 3, 2024 at 11:12 PM
👉 (bio)statistician with an axe to grind?
👉 Want to anonymously vent about a tough experience?
👉Was the grant due tomorrow?
🏆statanon.bsky.social is live! Email your gripes to [email protected] or send a DM
#statistics #academia
👉 Want to anonymously vent about a tough experience?
👉Was the grant due tomorrow?
🏆statanon.bsky.social is live! Email your gripes to [email protected] or send a DM
#statistics #academia
Evergreen post 👇
May 13, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Evergreen post 👇
Got a pub underway which has been rejected 4 times.
Good suggestions from #4 which require a lot of extra reading and analysis. I'm going do it, cut a section, and submit to #5
Sometimes this is just how the work goes! I am outside my main area of expertise and grateful for the input 💪
Good suggestions from #4 which require a lot of extra reading and analysis. I'm going do it, cut a section, and submit to #5
Sometimes this is just how the work goes! I am outside my main area of expertise and grateful for the input 💪
March 14, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Got a pub underway which has been rejected 4 times.
Good suggestions from #4 which require a lot of extra reading and analysis. I'm going do it, cut a section, and submit to #5
Sometimes this is just how the work goes! I am outside my main area of expertise and grateful for the input 💪
Good suggestions from #4 which require a lot of extra reading and analysis. I'm going do it, cut a section, and submit to #5
Sometimes this is just how the work goes! I am outside my main area of expertise and grateful for the input 💪
The best part about publishing my recent qual paper was when the editor at Journal #4 refused to share the reviewer comments which underpinned their decision to reject.
All I got was a ~50 word extract from one of the reviews.
Science! 🥂
#statsky #academicsky
All I got was a ~50 word extract from one of the reviews.
Science! 🥂
#statsky #academicsky
February 18, 2024 at 9:24 PM
The best part about publishing my recent qual paper was when the editor at Journal #4 refused to share the reviewer comments which underpinned their decision to reject.
All I got was a ~50 word extract from one of the reviews.
Science! 🥂
#statsky #academicsky
All I got was a ~50 word extract from one of the reviews.
Science! 🥂
#statsky #academicsky
Reposted by Taya Collyer
Hi friends. I'm looking for someone with solid medical stats and/or health data science skills to work with me on development of clinical prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis. It's a Postdoctoral Researcher position and is full time for 2 years.
Search ref: 074011
ore.ucc.ie
Search ref: 074011
ore.ucc.ie
University College Cork Vacancies
ore.ucc.ie
February 6, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Hi friends. I'm looking for someone with solid medical stats and/or health data science skills to work with me on development of clinical prediction models for diagnosis and prognosis. It's a Postdoctoral Researcher position and is full time for 2 years.
Search ref: 074011
ore.ucc.ie
Search ref: 074011
ore.ucc.ie