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Record W4281729074 · doi:10.1002/9781119665885.ch49

A Primer on Biostatistics

2022· other· es· W4281729074 on OpenAlexaff
Andrew W. Shih, Na Li, Celina Montemayor, Nancy M. Heddle

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languagees
FieldHealth Professions
TopicArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityCanadian Blood ServicesUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiostatisticsTest (biology)DiseaseDescriptive statisticsComputer scienceEpidemiologyData scienceDiagnostic testStatistical hypothesis testingMedicineManagement scienceMedical physicsStatisticsEngineeringPathologyMathematicsPediatrics

Abstract

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There are several measures of disease frequency that are used in the epidemiological and medical literature. A perfect diagnostic test would always identify patients as positive if they have the disease and would always be negative in patients without a disease. Descriptive statistics are used to summarise and describe distributions of data. While traditional methods use a test and/or a diagnostic tool to predict a disease state and/or outcome, as discussed at the beginning of this chapter, predictive analysis is becoming increasingly popular due to the emergence of sophisticated data science. When performing research, consulting with a biostatistician is paramount to ensure that the study is designed in a way that facilitates proper analysis. However, having knowledge of the concepts in biostatistics ensures that the clinical goals of the study meet the study design and the analytical plan.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.045
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.107
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.045
Threshold uncertainty score0.240

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0450.107
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0100.012
Science and technology studies0.0020.013
Scholarly communication0.0110.011
Open science0.0040.004
Research integrity0.0070.026
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.019

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.187
GPT teacher head0.505
Teacher spread0.318 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreMethods

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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