Wednesday, March 30, 2011

eBooks

eBooks

Diabetes and Obesity
Epidemiology
Statistics
Data Science
Others
中文 (Chinese)

Friday, March 25, 2011


Key Question 1: In adults age 18 or older with type 2 diabetes mellitus, what is the comparative effectiveness of these treatment options (see list of comparisons) for the intermediate outcomes of glycemic control (in terms of HbA1c), weight, or lipids?

Key Question 2: In adults age 18 or older with type 2 diabetes mellitus, what is the comparative effectiveness of the treatment options (see list of comparisons) in terms of the following long-term clinical outcomes?
Key Question 3: In adults age 18 or older with type 2 diabetes mellitus, what is the comparative safety of the treatment options (see list of comparisons) in terms of the following adverse events and side effects?
Key Question 4: Do the safety and effectiveness of these treatment options (see list of comparisons) differ across subgroups of adults with type 2 diabetes, in particular for adults age 65 or older, in terms of mortality, hypoglycemia, cardiovascular, and cerebrovascular outcomes?

Thursday, March 24, 2011


Thank you Bob for this article nicely compared the popularity of analytical software. I’m using SAS, Stata, and R mostly. Personally I treat SAS a product of a IBM-kind company, Stata as a  product of a Apple-kind company, and R as a product of a Google-kind company. 

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

How to Print Large Posters Using Freeware
The PosteRazor cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps. PosteRazor is available as a Windows, an OSX and a Linux version.

The Rasterbator is very easy to use. You can either upload a file from your computer or use any file that is publicly available in the Internet. After you have cropped the image and selected a desired size, the rasterbated image will be sent to you as an easily printable pdf file.  

Use POSTERIZA to design your own big posters and signs from any digital photo with your home printer! 

EpiWonk: an epidemiology Blog
Journal: Significance

Significance is a quarterly magazine for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. Its aim is to communicate and demonstrate in an entertaining, thought-provoking and non-technical way the practical use of statistics in all walks of life and to show informatively and authoritatively how statistics benefit society.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Journal: Statistics Science

On this site, there are many quite knowledgeable articles and interviews:

R Resources/Tips

Monday, March 21, 2011

MultiLevel Models for Complex Survey Data

at BRFSS Conference
March 19, 2011

Alan Hubbard
hubbard@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, Div. of Biostatistics

Friday, March 11, 2011


How to Load R Package At Start-up of R
If you wish to load Deducer every time you start R, open Rprofile.site with notepad. It should be located in the directory: "C:\Program Files\R\R-x.x.x\etc\", then add:
local({
old <- getOption("defaultPackages")
options(defaultPackages = c(old, "Deducer","DeducerExtras"))
})