In previous post, I outlined the winning candidate for the 2016 election. Now we are going to analyze margins of the Trump winning, or the percentage difference between votes for GOP and Democrats. Let’s first plot the percentage difference (or margin) of votes between GOP and Democrats in each US county: As the figure show, … [Read more…]
Trumpism started with the claim that Obama was not born in the United States. Follow that until now, President Trump utters a lie in almost every statement, press conference or comment. Trump even lies for things so demonstrably false, and so small for his persona, that one starts to question his ethical and moral fitness … [Read more…]
In a previous post, I outlined the terms of the analysis this Blog and you are going to make to the 2016 US Presidential election. In summary, we are going to adventure into trying to understand voters across counties in USA. The first thing to do is to take you, the reader, for a journey … [Read more…]
The US presidential election is a interesting source of analyses for data scientists. In the following weeks, I will try to bring interesting perspectives to the election of Trump as President of the United States. The following figure shows the number and percentage of votes each candidate had. Red arrows shift right for Trump, and … [Read more…]
The linearity assumption for continuous variables in logistic regression is often overlooked by researchers in my experience reading articles. It is a key assumption of these regression models, as most continuous variables have a higher frequency of the outcome at higher and lower values, with a range of normal values usually in the middle values … [Read more…]
The Washington Post reported that White House officials banned six words from the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention to please lawmakers:
The Sanofi’s dengue vaccine has a new setback, after a re-analysis of the clinical trial data, the company found that the vaccine “in the longer term, more cases of severe disease could occur following vaccination,” according to the press release. We may have to see the full data of these analyses to comment further. Despite … [Read more…]
We just published an article in the journal Rheumatology International about a center of excellence of rheumatoid arthritis in Colombia. Despite its limitations and the ecological bias derived from the analysis, it shows adequate treatment in these patients can lower symptoms in a middle-income country. If you have any comment send an email to me or the corresponding … [Read more…]
There is a robust discussion in the recent literature about prediction of mortality in pregnant and postpartum women. Other researchers and I published an article this year in the American Journal of Obstetric and Gynecology. We validated the Early Warning Score designed by Carle et al. for pregnant and postpartum patients. Despite that study is a very … [Read more…]
Hello world, this is my first post to the site. I plan to bring interesting perspectives to global health and data science, as well as work I consider important to disseminate more widely. If you would like to know a little bit more about me, you can visit the About me page on this site, visit … [Read more…]