Example 9.23: Demonstrating proportional hazards
A colleague recently asked after a slide suitable for explaining proportional hazards. In particular, she was concerned that her audience not focus on the time to event or probability of the event. An...
View ArticleExample 9.28: creating datasets from tables
RThere are often times when it is useful to create an individual level dataset from aggregated data (such as a table). While this can be done using the expand.table() function within the epitools...
View ArticleExample 9.31: Exploring multiple testing procedures
In example 9.30 we explored the effects of adjusting for multiple testing using the Bonferroni and Benjamini-Hochberg (or false discovery rate, FDR) procedures. At the time we claimed that it would...
View ArticleExample 2015.1: Time to refinance?
In the US, it's typical to borrow a fairly substantial portion of the cost of a new house from a bank. The cost of these loans, the mortgage rate, varies over time depending on what the financial...
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