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Optimizing Sample Size Allocation and Power in a Bayesian Two-Stage Drop-The-Losers Design. 贝叶斯两阶段输掉输家设计中的样本容量分配和功率优化。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Epub Date: 2019-06-24 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2019.1610065

Alex Karanevich, Richard Meier, Stefan Graw, Anna McGlothlin, Byron Gajewski

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引用次数: 1

Modified Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test and Power against Strong Null. 改进的Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney检验和抗强零功率。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2019-01-01 Epub Date: 2018-05-10 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2017.1328375

Youyi Fong, Ying Huang

引用次数: 14

Facilitating the Calculation of the Efficient Score Using Symbolic Computing. 利用符号计算促进有效分数的计算。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Epub Date: 2017-10-30 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2017.1392361

Alexander Sibley, Zhiguo Li, Yu Jiang, Yi-Ju Li, Cliburn Chan, Andrew Allen, Kouros Owzar

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引用次数: 1

A Guide to Teaching Data Science. 数据科学教学指南。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Epub Date: 2018-11-14 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2017.1356747

Stephanie C Hicks, Rafael A Irizarry

{"title":"A Guide to Teaching Data Science.","authors":"Stephanie C Hicks, Rafael A Irizarry","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2017.1356747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2017.1356747","url":null,"abstract":"Demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by statistics departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training. This has led to a number of opinion pieces advocating for an update to the Statistics curriculum. The unifying recommendation is that computing should play a more prominent role. We strongly agree with this recommendation, but advocate the main priority is to bring applications to the forefront as proposed by Nolan and Speed (1999). We also argue that the individuals tasked with developing data science courses should not only have statistical training, but also have experience analyzing data with the main objective of solving real-world problems. Here, we share a set of general principles and offer a detailed guide derived from our successful experience developing and teaching a graduate-level, introductory data science course centered entirely on case studies. We argue for the importance of statistical thinking, as defined by Wild and Pfannkuch (1999) and describe how our approach teaches students three key skills needed to succeed in data science, which we refer to as creating, connecting, and computing. This guide can also be used for statisticians wanting to gain more practical knowledge about data science before embarking on teaching an introductory course.","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"72 4","pages":"382-391"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00031305.2017.1356747","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37252641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 71

How to share data for collaboration. 如何共享协作数据。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2018-01-01 Epub Date: 2018-04-24 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2017.1375987

Shannon E Ellis, Jeffrey T Leek

引用次数: 0

A Comparison of Correlation Structure Selection Penalties for Generalized Estimating Equations. 广义估计方程的相关结构选择惩罚比较。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Epub Date: 2018-01-11 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1200490

Philip M Westgate, Woodrow W Burchett

引用次数: 17

Efficient Computation of Reduced Regression Models. 简化回归模型的高效计算。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Epub Date: 2017-02-28 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2017.1296375

Stuart R Lipsitz, Garrett M Fitzmaurice, Debajyoti Sinha, Nathanael Hevelone, Edward Giovannucci, Quoc-Dien Trinh, Jim C Hu

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引用次数: 1

Strategies for Success: Early-Stage Collaborating Biostatistics Faculty in an Academic Health Center. 成功的策略:在学术健康中心的早期合作生物统计学教师。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2017-01-01 Epub Date: 2017-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1277157

Heidi Spratt, Erin E Fox, Nawar Shara, Madhu Mazumdar

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引用次数: 12

The Central Role of Bayes' Theorem for Joint Estimation of Causal Effects and Propensity Scores. 贝叶斯定理在因果效应和倾向分数联合估计中的中心作用。

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2016-03-31 Epub Date: 2015-12-14 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1111260

Corwin Matthew Zigler

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引用次数: 40

The p-Value You Can't Buy. 买不到的 p 值

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American Statistician Pub Date : 2016-01-02 Epub Date: 2016-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1069760

Eugene Demidenko

{"title":"The p-Value You Can't Buy.","authors":"Eugene Demidenko","doi":"10.1080/00031305.2015.1069760","DOIUrl":"10.1080/00031305.2015.1069760","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing frustration with the concept of the p-value. Besides having an ambiguous interpretation, the p-value can be made as small as desired by increasing the sample size, n. The p-value is outdated and does not make sense with big data: Everything becomes statistically significant. The root of the problem with the p-value is in the mean comparison. We argue that statistical uncertainty should be measured on the individual, not the group, level. Consequently, standard deviation (SD), not standard error (SE), error bars should be used to graphically present the data on two groups. We introduce a new measure based on the discrimination of individuals/objects from two groups, and call it the D-value. The D-value can be viewed as the n-of-1 p-value because it is computed in the same way as p while letting n equal 1. We show how the D-value is related to discrimination probability and the area above the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. The D-value has a clear interpretation as the proportion of patients who get worse after the treatment, and as such facilitates to weigh up the likelihood of events under different scenarios. [Received January 2015. Revised June 2015.].","PeriodicalId":50801,"journal":{"name":"American Statistician","volume":"70 1","pages":"33-38"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4867863/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34518881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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