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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
EITM: http://www.poli.duke.edu/eitm/application.htm
"The scientific study of politics requires empirical evaluation of theoretical models, but theories too often proliferate without adequate testing, and empirical work too frequently applies sketchy and oversimplified theory. In EITM, researchers use recent ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Andrew Vickers, a biostatistician at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, wrote in the NY Times lamenting the reluctance to share data.
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Dr John Kirwan, a rheumatologist from the University of Bristol in England, has studied researchers’ attitudes on sharing data from clinical trials. He found that three-quarters of researchers ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
From Torsten Neilands
Dear Colleagues,
A project on which I'm working recently received continuation funding to collect cohort data for another five year funding cycle. The project's PI, Elise Riley, and its project director, Jennifer Cohen, are looking to hire a statistician at 50% effort. The job description appears below. Please feel ...
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