My wife is in Alzheimer's research. It turns out that the same bogus "quantile regression" methods that have been used to exaggerate genomic findings (bsky.app/profile/ent3...) are also being used to promote marginally effective AD treatments.
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Quantile aggregation may lead to overstated claims about amyloid-cognition relationships
Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN)
moorhen parent and teen taking a break from eating the newts
brief sunny spell in Elysium
Steve Smith
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The UK Biobank report on the recent data incident is now published:
www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/report-...
the Elysium pond is so full of life today - including goslings doing their first underwater warp-drive
Eric Turkheimer
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Steve Smith
Yesterday @kph3k noted that I "loathe" decile analysis as a way of describing the results of a PGS analysis. The subsequent discussion clarified why I loathe it-- it's a misleading way of reporting results, a systematic sleight of hand to disguise the import of a small effect. /1
