Alexander Brook

Statisticians handing p-values to the rest of science:

C. S. Lewis, remember

Correlation VS. Causation

Excited to share our new paper in @Abdominal_Rad ! We studied 313 pts with pneumatosis intestinalis on CT to better predict which cases indicate bowel ischemia. By combining clinical & radiological features, we achieved 85% AUC in identifying bowel ischemia. @FraRigi @abrook

Tabla maestro #ZakirHussain died at a hospital in San Francisco, his family said on Monday. Hussain died due to complications arising out of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to his family. He was 73. thehindu.com/entertainment/…

בשוליים, אבל: זהו הלוגו שמשמש את הקהילה היהודית של רומא לאירועי 07 באוקטובר. בהחלט נשברה חתיכה באותו יום, ואף גדולה. עיצב ותרם האומן Antonio Romano

Me: “At least things can't get any worse” Things:

Aaron Swartz would/should be 38 years old today.

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

See “numerator-only data” x.com/spillthememes/…

↙️ Data Scientist Statistician ↘️

"What makes definitions hard is that you have to generate them given nothing. You're not given literally nothing; you're just given nothing formal...The search space is about as big as it could be." lesswrong.com/posts/EF8tvShQ…

...was worth it just for this...

it really is so funny how the most powerful form of hacking is now gaslighting

People often think the most important part of science is the statistical analysis. But they’re wrong. The most important part is understanding the data. Who collected it, when, where, why, how, and from whom? Who entered and cleaned it, when, where, why, how, and for whom?

In this multi-institutional retrospective study, @hadiskavandi et al, led by @olgabrook from @BIDMCRad, explore factors that correlate with bleeding risk after splenic biopsy, including needle size @SeyedAmirEbrah1 @Vplanz @SamGalgano @abrook @BIDMC_AbdImg bit.ly/3ShP6WK

We have shown that #18G needle #splenicbiopsy is as safe as splenic biopsy with smaller needles. So even if it is scary, you can still biopsy spleen! @CsirEtc @BIDMC_AbdImg @BIDMCRad pubs.rsna.org/eprint/KH2D85J… @hadiskavandi @ItaniMalak @SamGalgano @VPlanz @cozb @abrook

A Jewish man dies and goes to hell. The elevator door opens and he sees green fields and a kibutznik on tractor. "What’s that?" he asks in disbelief. "I thought I was going to hell." "This is hell," answers the kibutznik. "You should have seen the place 75 years ago!"