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| bio | website | confounding.net |
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| location | United States | |
| age | 29 | |
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Infectious disease epidemiology doctoral student with a focus on the intersection of mathematical models of disease transmission and observational study methods - how observational studies can be used to parameterize models, and how models can help develop targets for observational study. Has a known, documented fondness for enteric pathogens.
Fluent in SAS, good enough in R, barely hanging on in Python and C.
Also the author of Confounded by Confounding, a blog of public health, statistics, and life as a graduate student.
Currently trying to get the 'Public Health and Epidemiology' SE site off the ground: http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/34565/public-health-epidemiology
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Aug 23 |
awarded | Editor |
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Aug 23 |
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Does making yogurt from non-pasteurized milk work against possible disease bacteria? @nico Added information and some nuance to the answer. It's a "staggering proportion" given the volume of raw milk consumed in this country. I suspect the same is true for the great part of Europe - people eat food that will give them food-born illness all the time. Unless its a massive outbreak in a popular food item, you won't hear about it. |
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Aug 23 |
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Does making yogurt from non-pasteurized milk work against possible disease bacteria? added 1411 characters in body |
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Aug 23 |
answered | Does making yogurt from non-pasteurized milk work against possible disease bacteria? |
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Aug 23 |
answered | Where can I find a list of diseases and their incidence? |
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Aug 11 |
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What is the difference between naive and adjusted p-values in a GWAS study? I suspect one of the reasons to report the unadjusted value is, as I allude to in my answer, many papers are now simply using a non-0.05 cutoff point instead of using some sort of multiple comparisons adjustment (which have their own issues). The unadjusted answer allows for comparison with those studies - I don't actually think its a red herring. |
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Aug 11 |
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What is the difference between naive and adjusted p-values in a GWAS study? Please consider accepting some of the answers to your previous questions. |
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Aug 11 |
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What is the difference between naive and adjusted p-values in a GWAS study? Added Epidemiology tag |
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Aug 11 |
answered | What is the difference between naive and adjusted p-values in a GWAS study? |
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Jun 15 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 9 |
answered | Why doesn't yearly screening for lung cancer decrease mortality rates? |
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Apr 27 |
answered | Could someone recommend an introductory book on epidemiology? |
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Mar 12 |
answered | How does herpes (HSV) infection suppress HIV? |
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Mar 12 |
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How does herpes (HSV) infection suppress HIV? Also, can we have a citation on this claim? Most of what I've seen suggests that HSV-2 is a risk factor for the acquisition of HIV, and that is is the suppression of HSV using acyclovir that helps prevent HIV. |
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Mar 12 |
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How does herpes (HSV) infection suppress HIV? @bobthejoe I don't think it is. For example, HSV-1 and HSV-2 are massively different infections, and both are extremely common in humans. |
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Mar 11 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Mar 7 |
answered | What data / tools exist for mapping of disease trends? |
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Mar 6 |
answered | How are antibiotic resistant bacterial infections treated? |
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Mar 6 |
answered | When are population dynamics models useful? |
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Mar 6 |
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How are antibiotic resistant bacterial infections treated? A second vote for reopening. The question is not "What drugs should I use to treat X", the question is how they are treated. That question is very much in the domain of microbiology and epidemiology, neither one of which are medical fields. |
