Biostatistics for Biomedical Research has a new section showing how to compute the sample size needed to characterize an entire distribution (e.g., all its quantiles). http://hbiostat.org/bbr/nonpar.html#sec-nonpar-ecdf #bbrcourse @VUMCbiostat #statistics #biostatistics
Biostatistics for Biomedical Research - 7  Nonparametric Statistical Tests

New blog article in Statistical Thinking: Grant proposal template for developing and validating predictive biostatistical models: https://fharrell.com/post/modplan #StatThink #rmscourse #bbrcourse @VUMCbiostat
Statistical Thinking - Biostatistical Modeling Plan

This is an example statistical plan for project proposals where the goal is to develop a biostatistical model for prediction, and to do external or strong internal validation of the model.

Case study on invalidity of change from baseline in which a strong nonlinear effect of baseline makes average change from baseline uninterpretable: http://hbiostat.org/bbr/change.html#sec-change-ex #bbrcourse #statistics #biostatistics
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Biostatistics for Biomedical Research - 14  Transformations, Measuring Change, and Regression to the Mean

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