In this week’s Brief, we look again at the statistics of Coronavirus. We also spotlight our Health Analytics Mastery – a 3-course series in which you can choose from among Biostatistics 1 and 2 Designing Valid Statistical Studies Epidemiologic Statistics * Introduction to Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials You can start July 1 with BiostatisticsContinue reading “Mar 24: Statistics in Practice”
Daily Archives: March 24, 2020
Covid-19 Parameters
There are many moving parts in modeling the spread of an epidemic, a subject that has lately attracted the attention of great numbers of statistically-oriented non-epidemiologists (like me). I’ve put together a “lay statistician’s guide” to some of the important parameters and factors (and I welcome corrections/additions!). Terms Case fatality rate or CFR: Deaths asContinue reading “Covid-19 Parameters”
Preliminary Paper
Here is a preliminary paper that suggests that RNA extraction kits, one of the main bottlenecks to Covid-19 testing in the US, can be skipped altogether and the next part of the assay (RT-qPCR) still works. If confirmed, this result would have a major impact on how many tests state and hospital labs could runContinue reading “Preliminary Paper”