R help - Dec 2008 - Off-topic -- an eye on a stats presentation for clinicians?

I've got a 20 slide Powerpoint set up against the expected day someone
says "Mitch, could you talk for a short while to the residents on how
to use statistics?"

It looks good at this end, but I'd love to get at least one more pair
of eyes on it.

Any volunteers?

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Mitchell Maltenfort wrote:
> I've got a 20 slide Powerpoint set up against the expected day someone
> says "Mitch, could you talk for a short while to the residents on how
> to use statistics?"
> 
> It looks good at this end, but I'd love to get at least one more pair
> of eyes on it.
> 
> Any volunteers?
> 
I would be glad to take an extremely quick look.  I would avoid 
concentrating on distributions and emphasize confidence limits and box 
plots.

Take a look at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ClinStat for a lot of 
material.  A handout for a brief presentation to such an audience is at 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/FHHandouts/radiology.stat.issues.pdf

Note that my affiliation on those slides has not been updated since I 
left my previous university.

Frank


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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

I'd love to take a look at it. I run journal club for our family
practice residents and have to do this all the time (with more or less
success; often less, it seems.)

--Chris
Christopher W. Ryan, MD
SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton
40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY  13790
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Mitchell Maltenfort wrote:
> I've got a 20 slide Powerpoint set up against the expected day someone
> says "Mitch, could you talk for a short while to the residents on how
> to use statistics?"
> 
> It looks good at this end, but I'd love to get at least one more pair
> of eyes on it.
> 
> Any volunteers?
>