Category: Updates
What’s the difference between Standard Deviation vs Standard Error?
Here's a great paper (short) on the difference between standard deviation and standard error. It will make for a good video one day, but not tonight... It's late! 🙂 - Rahul & Beth
Two new videos posted: Clinical Significance and Why CI’s are better than P-values
We added two new videos to clarify and expand upon some concepts. They are both found on the Power, Type II Error and Beta page. They speak specifically to the difference between clinical vs statistical significance andwhy confidence intervals are better than p-values (and how to interpret CI's). If you have questions, please put them … Continue reading Two new videos posted: Clinical Significance and Why CI’s are better than P-values
Freakonomics and EBM
There's a great podcast focusing on popular uses of economics. Economics is nothing more that statistics applied to people's behavior and so they turned their focus toward the way doctor's make decisions. Here are two great episodes worth a listen. How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare? How Many Doctors Does It Take … Continue reading Freakonomics and EBM
Sample problem answers
Here are the answers from the previous set of sample problems, again thanks to Drs. John and Lynch. Atrial Fibrillation answers Odds and Risk Ratios Screening Tests Practice Final
You asked for EBM Handouts… we’d like to make them for you
Dear students, We heard that you would like handouts to go along with the videos. Help us by letting us know what exactly you'd like in these handouts? We obviously cannot type the videos verbatim, but we can provide a summary. Or would you just like the formulas? Here's a link to a Google Document … Continue reading You asked for EBM Handouts… we’d like to make them for you
Spotting Bad Science
I found a great website called http://www.compoundchem.com which is full of infographics. The one relevant to our site here is the one on spotting bad evidence. Fun little graphic on keeping a skeptical eye on research.
EBM Practice Exam
Dear students, We created a practice exam to help you study for the final. The practice exam is posted at http://theebmproject.wordpress.com/rmd-529-syllabus/downloads/ Please let us know if you have any questions about it. You can also comment on the google doc and answer one another's questions. Good luck and it was a pleasure teaching all of you! … Continue reading EBM Practice Exam
EBM final exam
Dear students, Â The EBM final exam will cover all the material for the course with extra weight on the content from the spring quarter. You will not have to know details about the papers we discussed this quarter. You should understand the concepts that we covered in our discussions. For example, you should understand how … Continue reading EBM final exam
Small group #4 Medicine
Dear students, The questions for EBM small group session #4 are now posted on the EBM site on the Downloads page: http://theebmproject.wordpress.com/rmd-529-syllabus/downloads/. Please let us know if you have any questions. Beth and Rahul
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