No. 23: How Bayes Bets on Football The following blog was initiated by Professor Frank Harrell (Vanderbilt University) for which I ultimately gave input and did some writing. Dr. Harrell posted this on his website initially on March 10, 2024, and it was updated to include a more extensive...
Preamble I have written on this topic before (see Blogs 2, 3, 4, 17, 18 and 21), and this is a continuation and clarification of my thinking. This is a bit lengthy, so hang in there. I think you will enjoy reading it to the end. As noted in Blog #21, I was at the recent Joint Statistical...
Fluvoxamine for Covid-19 Revisited Background I am writing this blog as a follow-up to a previous blog on fluvoxamine as a treatment for Covid-19 (see Blog 19: We Won’t Get Fooled Again, Again). In that blog I did my assessment of the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled...
I am writing this Blog because I just got done watching a segment on 60 Minutes about the use of fluvoxamine as a treatment for mild COVID-19 patients. (In case there are non-US folks reading this, 60 Minutes is quite a famous and long-running TV news show that highlights 3 stories for ~20 minutes...