Placebo Control

I am a bit delayed getting my latest post up.   I am writing up some thoughts on this recentstudy put out by ARCO, which suggests that ...

Pretty much everyone involved in patient recruitment for clinical trials seems to agree that "metrics" are, in some general sense,...

If you’re a human being, in possession of one working, standard-issue human brain (and, for the remainder of this post, I’m going to assume ...

Following up on yesterday's post regarding a study of placebo-related information, it seems worthwhile to pause and expand on the diffe...

4 out of 5 non-doctors recommend starting with "regular strength", and titrating up from there... (Photo from inventedbyamother....

[Note: this post is an excerpt from a longer presentation I made at the DIA Clinical Data Quality Summit, April 24, 2012, entitled Delight t...

The Wall Street Journal has a brief but useful lay overview of the concept of statistical significance. Without mentioning them by name, it...