Thoughts on the quality of biomedical research from a statistician’s perspective

As a relative newcomer to biomedical research, I’ve spent the better part of the last year and a half reading biomedical research journal articles. I was quickly shocked by the number of articles with unclear, incorrect, or otherwise poorly done statistical analyses. This article was one of the first search results from a Google search…

Reporting a confidence interval in place of a p value

This is the first in a series of posts to support the decades long push by statisticians to move away from the null hypotheses significance testing (NHST) paradigm (e.g., “The results are statistically significant (p<0.05).”) to a more nuanced and comprehensive style of reporting statistical results. Here is a good starting point for background on…

Using Citrix with Ubuntu 18.04

Even though this is well documented on the web, I’ll add some details on my experience running Citrix Workspace app (Citrix Receiver) via Ubuntu 18.04. The explanation posted here worked for me at first, so I would start there. I would choose the Workspace App, which I believe is the updated version of the Citrix…