catchtwentytoo.bsky.social
catchtwentytoo.bsky.social
catchtwentytoo.bsky.social
@catchtwentytoo.bsky.social
Clinical trial statistician
The Championship playoff final today starts at 15:01. “That’ll be because of ancient broadcasting laws”, I thought. But no! It’s to raise awareness that Every Minute Matters in CPR. Great work @bhfpolicy.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I don’t care about fishing rights and have yet to meet anyone who does
May 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Brexit has been an utter disaster. It did let the Labour government impose VAT on private school fees though, to howls of derision from the wingnuts that had advocated Brexit. So that made me laugh.

Hopefully a UK government will muster the courage to admit the folly and take us back in #Rejoin
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
As punchy quotes go, this is up there

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
January 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Trialists always be *deeming shit
January 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“Fetch your own fucking ball”
- Cats
December 27, 2024 at 6:54 PM
I postulate the existence of a set of days on which the average Briton causes 1/23rd their regular CO2
Average Briton causes 23 times more CO2 on Christmas Day, study reveals
Campaigners say consumption such as travel, gifts and food are destroying planet and the meaning of Christmas
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2024 at 7:48 AM
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Ah yes the memories. We gave this one a statistical review (with @timpmorris.bsky.social & @sim0ngates.bsky.social) on August 23, the first of several such reviews we did in conjunction with the statistics working group of the @mrcnihrtmrp.bsky.social.

zenodo.org/records/3724...
December 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM
When people talk about a statistical analysis being “valid” or “validated”, what do they mean? Is there a checklist I can use?
December 17, 2024 at 10:06 AM
If any colleague has access to this paper, I’d really appreciate it if they could send me the *supplementary materials*. Bizarrely I have the paper but cannot access the supplement..

Thanks!

academic.oup.com/biometrics/a...
LEAP: the latent exchangeability prior for borrowing information from historical data
ABSTRACT. It is becoming increasingly popular to elicit informative priors on the basis of historical data. Popular existing priors, including the power pr
academic.oup.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search?

I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke.

"Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...
November 22, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Sartre actually said “Hell is other people’s code”
November 7, 2024 at 9:24 AM
I’m sure some variant of this Wilde quote is appropriate today:
November 6, 2024 at 7:30 AM
RIP Janey Godley
November 2, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Do we refer to imputed datasets as imputees?
September 17, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Ok fine I’ll learn how to use emmeans
September 6, 2024 at 3:02 PM
This is super news. Renewable energy auctions are ticking again in the UK under Labour. What’s more, projects using wind, solar, and tidal were funded. Hopefully more to come

www.theguardian.com/business/art...
Renewable energy auction secures enough power for 11m UK homes
£1.5bn auction awards record funding for new windfarms, solar farms and tidal power projects
www.theguardian.com
September 3, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Dorothy said ‘There’s no place like home’ because that’s where she understood the recycling
August 26, 2024 at 5:18 PM
New preprint with Michael Sweeting and other AZ colleagues on an efficient method for comparing dose-finding designs by simulation. I also updated the escalation package on CRAN to implement our proposed method. This blog post explains all about it!

www.kristianbrock.com/post/compari...
Comparing dose-finding designs by simulation | Kristian Brock
A simple, efficient method for comparing dose-finding designs described in preprint and implemented in escalation v0.1.8
www.kristianbrock.com
February 26, 2024 at 3:27 PM