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Martin Bland
Publikováno v:
Significance. 15:34-37
When Martin Bland was diagnosed with type II diabetes, he did what any medical statistician would do: he analysed his blood test results to find out whether alcohol consumption was associated with an increase or decrease in blood sugar levels
Autor:
Martin Bland
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Significance. 16:42-43
Statistics is used in medical research, often by people with limited training in the discipline – so, inevitably, mistakes will be made. But rather than highlight those mistakes in statistical journals or at statistics conferences, statisticians ne
Autor:
Martin Bland
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Significance. 11:32-35
Bull semen cures baldness? Tree bark treats Crohn's disease? Use toothpaste for love-bites and make love to cure a migraine? Prop yourself upside down to avert hair loss, and stick duct tape on verrucas? Martin Bland heard the call of TV to statistic
Autor:
Martin Bland
Publikováno v:
Significance. 15:11-11
Jacqueline Speel writes: Many years ago, I read an article about an unexpected dip in deaths in New Zealand, which was worked out to be the effect of deaths having already occurred in World War I. Would the recently stated change in death rates in th
Autor:
Martin Bland
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Significance. 14:8-9
A reported decrease in life expectancy at age 65 has been blamed on funding cuts made by the UK's coalition and Conservative governments. But the story is not so straightforward, as Martin Bland explains
Autor:
Martin Bland
Publikováno v:
Significance. 4:175-178
Risedronate is a drug used to reduce fractures in women with osteoporosis. The story of the Sheffield Risedronate trial made national news when one of the clinical researchers, Aubrey Blumsohn, dissociated himself from the trial because he was refuse
Autor:
Doug G Altman, Martin Bland
Publikováno v:
Significance. 2:166-170
Martin Bland and Doug Altman have been writing together for nearly 30 years, much of it about the consequences of misleading statistical analyses. In what they estimate to be their 79th publication, they comment on a long-running controversy: do left
Autor:
Martin Bland
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Significance. 2:106-109
In 2002 Martin Bland made his first appearance on television, in a BBC2 Horizon programme on homeopathy. When he gives talks about this work, the list of acknowledgements includes John Enderby, Vice-President of the Royal Society, and James Randi, ma
Autor:
Martin Bland
Publikováno v:
Significance. 12:40-41
Statisticians “get to play in everyone's back yard”, said John Tukey – and they get to publish in other people's journals as well. Martin Bland takes a light-hearted look at the publication records of prominent statisticians
Autor:
Martin Bland
Publikováno v:
Significance. 6:182-183
In 2007 No. 7 Protect & Perfect Beauty Serum became Boots'fastest ever selling product after a BBC2 Horizon programme reported on a clinical trial of its effectiveness: here, unusually, was a scientific trial that seemed to show that a beauty product