Background One of my colleagues is an academic physical therapist (PT), and he's working on a paper to his colleagues related to power, sample size, and navigating the thicket of trouble that surrounds those two things. We recently got together to walk through some of the issues, and I thought ... [Read more...]

The setup When doing statistics the Bayesian way, we are sometimes bombarded with complicated integrals that do not lend themselves to closed-form solutions. This used to be a problem. Nowadays, not so much. This post illustrates how a person can... [Read more...]

Who Me. I'm an associate professor of Statistics at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. I've been using R for about 7 years, Emacs about 3 years, git about 1 year, and Org-Mode for less than a year. What I want this blo... [Read more...]