The NIH provides financial support for a large percentage of biological and medical research in the United States. This funding supports a large number of US jobs, creates new knowledge, and improves healthcare for everyone. So I am signing this petiti... [Read more...]

This article linked below and the subsequent comments (some apparently from an Elsevier rep.) are interesting. It's not directly related to R, but is related to open source/science philosophy. Elsevier-funded NY Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Wants to D... [Read more...]

Following on from some of my earlier posts, this is purely about, hopefully, saving some other people some time in putting this together. Height z-scores are required to then calculate the blood pressure z-scores. The CDC (Center for Disease Control … Continue reading → [Read more...]