I think there is a difference between expecting a statistician to know about effects and to have a deep working knowledge of the psychology of the...
I think too many statisticians follow recipes and forget about the limitation of techniques. Sometimes (or often) they seem to simply assume...
I suspect they are well aware of this and see it as a way of getting easy approval. It is concerning that people who clearly don't know what...
One of the joint heads of this unit Prof Chris Metcalfe is an author in the Magenta and Fitnet protocols. So there expertise in allowing...
One of the committee has a page here: https://www.alignbodyclinic.co.uk/jay-ruddock He doesn't appear to have research experience beyond being...
The authorship extends to the protocol to analyse the data and not just the paper where the data is used.
In terms of ethics permission in the response from the ethics committee on 29 January 2016 for an unpublished amendment request from 18th Nov 2015...
In a letter to the ethics committee who approved Magenta...
They appear to have incorporated these changes in when they made it a full trial in 2017. Including the use of 100 patients from the feasibility...
I think that is one of the reasons to have them for the whole period of the trial. Even if they use slightly less accurate devices. Something like...
The reviewers are pointing out that the protocol does not actually define what treatment is being provided. Yet the trial seemed to have started...
He is one of Crawley's group I believe.
I think that one of their big issues is that they seem to have no quality control between the groups so if some group or individuals are producing...
Have you seen the post PACE reanalysis letter that bristol sent to the ethics committee and then the ethics committee gave them a clean bill of...
Just dropping the measure when they are continuing the trial seems dodgy to me. This should be seen as a mid way assessment and change in outcomes...
PACE is a big contributer to the Cochrane data in the meta analysis and one of the few with harms data. Also much of the criticism of pace...
When all the doctors keep saying chronic fatigue then its easy to slip into that language.
It seems to me that they cannot then claim that analysis happened before data was unblinded (to the stats team) it also suggests any deviations...
I'm wondering if that indicates something dodgy is going on. Are they doing an early assessment of results in case they need to tweak the...
Looking at this website I was reminded of that the ethics information is available (I think we have discussed it before)...
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