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... testing have proved quite popular. See Part 1: the screening problem, and Part 2: Part 2: the false discovery rate. They’ve ... the paper based on them). Yet another Alzheiner’s screening story hit the headlines recently and the facts got sorted out in the ...
... to follow-up This post is about why screening healthy people is generally a bad idea. It is the first in a series ... problems are consistently ignored by people who suggest screening tests, and by journals that promote their work. It seems that it can’t be said often enough. The reason is that most screening tests give a large number of false positives. If your test comes out ...
... look at an example of each of them. Private health screening is wildly oversold There has been a long-running controversy about the value of screening for things like breast cancer. For a superb account, read Dr Margaret ...
... you can get to declaring equipoise. Comparison: Consider Screening Tests I wrote a statistics textbook in 1971 [download it here] ... people I came to see my errors through thinking about screening tests. These are very much in the news at the moment because of the ...
... about the problems associated with the interpretation of screening tests and tests of significance. They don’t allude to legal ... isn’t a good solution. The analogy with the use of screening tests to detect disease is illuminating. Screening tests A particularly straightforward application of Bayes’ theorem ...
Chalkdust is a magazine published by students of maths from UCL Mathematics department. Judging by its first issue, it’s an excellent vehicle for popularisation of maths. I have a piece in the second issue You can view the whole second issue on line, ...
... of statistics. I’ll explain why most screening tests do more harm than good (so NHS health checks are a waste of ...
... (55), 62–71 The last post was about screening. It showed that most screening tests are useless, in the sense that a large proportion of people who ... by means of a tree diagram, very like that used to analyse screening tests, in the previous post. In order to do this, we need to specify ...
... problems of irreproducibility in science and talked about screening problems (my most recent post) and then a quick discussion of the ...
... of clinical trials company that runs clinical trials and screening programmes". I should say at the outset that ... practice letterhead) inviting her to go for osteoporosis screening, and possibly to "take part in a study". Download the ...
... of drug discovery lay in genomics and high-throughput screening, Richard Sykes, when head of GSK, put the vast resources of GSK into ...
... drug design, combinatorial chemistry, high-throughput screening and genomics. All these techniques are very cost-intensive and, what ...
... to drug discovery. Does it work as well as high-throughput screening? The helter-skelter on Brighton pier For me that means only one ...
... a company, Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. to exploit genomic screening Stanford licensed to technology exclusively to Nolan’s ...
... was his reply. “We were told that we should be screening new drug candidates that might make money.” The real problem, ...