Articles & How-To Explanations

Contents

Biostatistics

• Common Biostatistical Problems
• P-value Fallacy: Peter Bacchetti lecture (in PDF format)
• Interpreting Results: How to phrase conclusions that reflect estimates and confidence intervals, not just p-values
• Association Measures for Binary Outcomes?
• Estimation vs Hypothesis Testing?
• Limitations of P-values?
• Limitations of Omnibus Tests?
• Biostatistical Methods for Clinical Research

Ethics

• How To Get Through Institutional Review Smoothly
• How a BREAD Ethics Consultation Can Help (UCSF)
• Ethical Issues of Research in Developing Countries
• Data Monitoring in Clinical Trials
• Using Placebo Controls

Data Management

• Data Management

Understanding Regulatory Terms

• What Do Regulators Classify as "Research"?
• What Makes Some Research "Minimal Risk"?

Epidemiology and Research Design

• Compare and Contrast Different Study Designs
• Research Study Design Course
  

Grants and Awards

• NIH Mentored Career Development (K) Awards

How to Decide...

• Whether to match in a case-control study
• How to sample controls in a nested case-control study
• Whether to adjust for a potential confounder?
• Whether to stratify your analysis by a potential effect modifier
• What to call this study I'm doing?

Recruitment

• Phase III
  • IRIS Trial
    
• Randomized Controlled Studies
  • Randomized Trial of BREAD Services