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Recommended Reading

In Reverse Chronological Order by Date of Publication

Authors	Title	Journal	Issue	Page	Comments
Pocock SJ, Ware JH	Translating statistical findings into plain English	Lancet	Jun 6 2009	1926	Concise reference on how to word results from P-values and confidence limits in medical papers
Ransohoff D	How to improve reliability and efficiency of research about molecular markers: roles of phases, guidelines, and study design	J Clin Epi	Dec 2007	1205	Study design is all important; principles are more important than phases and guidelines; strong case for making early studies reliable; excellent bibliography and list of examples of omics studies gone bad
Young SS	Gaming the system: Chaos from multiple testing	IMS Bulletin	Dec 2007	13	Editorial about the scientific crisis caused by poor statistical practice in epidemiology
Sonnenburg et al	The Need for Open Source Software in Machine Learning	J Machine Learning Res	2007	2443	Excellent summary of benefits of open source and of various licenses
Palmer CR, Shahumyan H	Implementing a decision-theoretic design in clinical trials:Why and how?	Stat in Med	30 Nov 2007	4939	Benefits of a decision-theoretic approach to clinical trials;excellent summary of ethical issues;first known clinical trial; data-dependent design; software
Campbell I	Chi-squared and Fisher-Irwin tests of two-by-two tables with small sample recommendations	Stat in Med	30 Aug 2007	3661	Why not to use Fisher's test or the Yates correction; why to use N-1 instead of N in formula for Pearson chi-square. See DataAnalysisDisc
Louis T	Our future as history	Biometrics	March 2007	1	A nice article about the future and challenges of biostatistics
Royston P, Altman D, Sauerbrei W	Dichotomizing continuous predictors in multiple regression: a bad idea	Stat in Med	15 Jan 2006	127	Covers all the terrible problems caused by dichotomization
Wang A, Gehan EA	Gene selection for microarray data analysis using principal component analysis	Stat in Med	15 Jul 2005	2069	Data reduction method of potentially great use in gene microarray analysis and many other areas
Morton S	Statistical collaboration to impact policy decisions	Stat in Med	28 Feb 2005	493	Definitions of consulting and collaboration, excellent case studies where a statistician made a fundamental impact
Senn S	Added values controversies concerning randomization and additivity in clinical trials	Stat in Med	30 Dec 2005	3729	Interesting discussion on randomization and covariate-balanced randomization, blocking, covariate adjustment, choice of metrics, history
Efron B	Statistics and the rules of science	Amstat News	July 2004	2	Excellent summary of the scientific process
Dufouil C, Brayne C, Clayton D	Analysis of longitudinal studies with death and drop-out: a case study	Stat in Med	Jul 2004	2215	Good overview, discusses problems in targeting immortal subjects
Hogan J, Roy J, Korkontzelou C	Handling drop-out in longitudinal studies	Stat in Med	May 2004	43	Excellent tutorial on nonrandom dropout
Mason RL	Does the statistics profession have an identity crisis?	JASA	Mar 2004	1	Strong case for certification of statisticians
Brumback BA, Hernan MA, Haneuse SJPA, Robins JM	Sensitivity analyses for unmeasured confounding assuming a marginal structural model for repeated measures	Stat in Med	Mar 2004	747
Lin DY, Ying Z	Semiparametric regression analysis of longitudinal data with informative drop-outs	Biostat	2003	385	Perhaps the most useful approach for comparing 2 treatments when nonrandom dropouts occur
Greenland S	When should epidemiologic regressions use random coefficients?	Biometrics	2000	915	See this and Biometrics 62:760;2006
Nick TG, Hardin JM	Regression Modeling Strategies: An Illustrative Case Study From Medical Rehabilitation Outcomes Research	Am J Occ Therapy	Sep 1998	459	This is like a mini-course in modeling. Helpful for Masters level (or anyone) working on the Puzzlers.

This list is intended to point faculty and staff to articles written by persons outside Vanderbilt that may be of interest.

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