December 30, 2014
Briefly
- When MRI and CT scans were invented, doctors started being able to see that many patients with back pain had obvious things wrong with their spines or spinal disks. When MRI and CT scans got less expensive, doctors started being able to scan lots of people without back pain: they have obvious things wrong with their spines or spinal disks, too.
- From Matt Levine at Bloomberg View, a good example of why multidimensional visualisation is interesting, and easy to get wrong: If you’ve ever dreamed of being able to “process financial information easily without ever seeing a single number or percentage,” then you are mad, but also someone has built a thing for you. You wear it on your face and walk around looking at your stock portfolio; be careful not to trip over Radio Shack!
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »