Posts tagged biostats
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part III
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part III

In Part III, we're going to learn about the types of statistical tests (and when to use them). 

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Pharmacy School, Practice, Residency, ClinicalBrandon Dysonbiostats, biostatistics, literature evaluation, literature analysis, how to analyze a study, parametric tests, non-parametric tests, what statistical test to choose, how to choose a statistical test, student's t-test, t test, anova, chi square, linear regression, multivariate regression, kruskal-wallis, mcnemar, pearson correlation, paired t-test, continuous vs categorical data, tests of statistical signficance, biostats pharmacy
The tl;dr Pharmacy Journal Club: Rivaroxaban with or without Aspirin in Stable Cardiovascular Disease (COMPASS)
The tl;dr Pharmacy Journal Club: Rivaroxaban with or without Aspirin in Stable Cardiovascular Disease (COMPASS)

This is our first ever journal club, so let us know what you think about it! Shoot me a line at brandon@tldrpharmacy.com. If there's enough interest, we may do more of these journal clubs in the future.

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Clinical, Pharmacy School, Practice, ResidencyBrandon Dysonxarelto, rivaroxaban, COMPASS trial, COMPASS journal club, tldr journal club, tl;dr journal club, aspirin, anticoagulation, biostats, biostatistics, literature evaluation, ARR, absolute risk reduction, journal club, statistics
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part II
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part II

This post explores the more applied concepts such as odds, risk, hazards, and correlation. These concepts are the heart of inferential statistics because they represent different ways of comparing one thing to another

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Clinical, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon Dysonbiostats, biostatistics, odds ratio, relative risk, hazard ratio, correlation, positive predictive value, PPV, negative predictive value, NPV, sensitivity, specificity, ARR, absolute risk reduction, relative risk reduction, number needed to treat, number needed to harm, incidence, prevalence
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part I
How to Be Awesome at Biostatistics and Literature Evaluation - Part I

As with all things tl;dr pharmacy, this post will (ironically) be stupendously long. But it will serve as your one stop shop for all things biostats and clinical literature related.

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Clinical, Pharmacy School, PracticeBrandon Dysonbiostats, biostatistics, literature evaluation, p-value, clinical significance, type i error, type II error, null hypothesis, alternative hypothesis, confidence interval, standard deviation, mean, median, mode, normal distribution