What is the difference between reading numbers as they are presented, and interpreting them in a mature, deeper way? One way perhaps to look at the latter is what statisticians call ‘confidence interval’. Suppose I look at a sampling of 100 americans who are asked if they approve of the job the supreme court is… Continue reading Confidence Intervals for a proportion – using R
I am still trying to get up to speed on blogging after a gap. Today I managed to push myself to write some R code and test it, and it worked. Am getting there, although need more work to turn it into a blog post. So, here is another on the lines of professional development.… Continue reading What is networking, really?
I have been trying to get my blogging going again after a gap of two months. It has been incredibly hard. To warm up, I decided to try some non technical posts. One of them is stuff I have been wanting to write a long time – with this year I will complete attending 14… Continue reading 14 years of Summit…
The past two months have been very hectic for me. I had an unexpected job offer towards end of July, which I gladly accepted – that was followed by some much needed home renovation, and a long vacation/tour of the west coast with my beloved sister. All of this has taken a toll on my… Continue reading Getting back to blogging
In this post we will explore a common statistical term – Relative Risk, otherwise called Risk Factor. Relative Risk is a term that is important to understand when you are doing comparative studies of two groups that are different in some specific way. The most common usage of this is in drug testing – with… Continue reading Understanding Relative Risk – with T-SQL
This test is an extension of the Chi Square test I blogged of earlier. This is applied when we have to compare two groups over several levels and comparison may involve a third variable. Let us consider a cohort study as an example – we have two medications A and B to treat asthma. We… Continue reading Cochran-Mantel-Haenzel Method with T-SQL and R – Part I
Below is the script to create the table and dataset I used. This is just test data and not copied from anywhere. USE [yourdb] GO /****** Object: Table [dbo].[DrugResponse] Script Date: 6/12/2017 6:45:46 AM ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIERl ON GO SET ANSI_PADDING ON GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DrugResponse]( [seqno] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,… Continue reading Dataset for Cochran-Mantel-Hanzel Test
