Biostatistician, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Blogging at thestatsgeek.com
Jonathan Bartlett
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Thursday 11th June, join us at LSHTM or online to hear from Rebecca Whittle on 'How large is large enough? Sample size calculations for clinical prediction models'. Further details here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e... @lshtm-dash.bsky.social
Perspectives on statistics in medicine: Annual joint LSHTM/RSS lecture on 16th June, by Prof. Marion Campbell. Further details here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
A few places left on our online 3 day course on multiple imputation for missing data...
Come and join us this Tuesday to hear 'The test negative design: What bias is it intended to address?' @lshtm-dash.bsky.social www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Please join us in person or online @lshtm-dash.bsky.social on 26th February to hear about @georgiatomova.bsky.social's recent work on 'How can different modes of survey data collection introduce bias?'
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'How to interpret hazard ratios', with @dominicmagirr.bsky.social and @timpmorris.bsky.social thestatsgeek.com/2026/01/15/h...
@lshtm.bsky.social will be running a 3-day online short course on using multiple imputation to handle missing data on 23-25th June 2026. Teaching staff include James Carpenter, Ruth Keogh, Clémence Leyrat, and myself. Further details about the course at www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
🥳 Registration for abstracts for EuroCIM 2026 (Oxford) is now OPEN and the deadline for submissions is 9 January 2026: eurocim.org/oxford-2026/...
👉 Theme? “Causal inference in health, economic and social science”
👉 When? April 14-17
👉 Where? Oxford
👉 Register? eurocim.org/oxford-2026/...
New PhD position available at @mrcctu.bsky.social to develop guidance on balancing statistical and clinical considerations when choosing an estimand in RCTs.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Thinking of performing a quantitative bias analysis for measurement error or misclassification? Then our recent software review, by Codie Wood, Kate Tilling, myself and Rachael Hughes, may be of interest: rdcu.be/eDRn2
Clinical prediction models are increasingly used to support decision-making, yet guidance on how large a dataset is needed to develop a reliable model remains limited. In practice, sample size is
Future directions in the evaluation of innovative technologies in healthcare: Technology in healthcare is rapidly advancing. For example, a recent healthcare report suggests that 9 out of 10
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Test-negative studies recruit ‘cases’ who test positive for a particular disease; ‘controls’ are patients undergoing the same tests for the same medical reasons and who test negative. The design is
Survey data are self-reported data collected directly from respondents by a questionnaire or an interview, and are commonly used in health research. Such data are traditionally collected via a single
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Survival analysis of time-to-event outcomes is very commonly performed using Cox’s famous proportional hazards model. The model estimates hazard ratios for the ‘effects’ of covari…
PhD Project - Optimising the choice of estimand in randomised trials: developing guidance on balancing statistical and clinical considerations to ensure results matter to stakeholders at University Co...
@lshtm.bsky.social will be running a 3-day online short course on using multiple imputation to handle missing data on 23-25th June 2026. Teaching staff include James Carpenter, Ruth Keogh, Clémence Leyrat, and myself. Further details about the course at www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
