statistics

I know the issue of severity is sensitive and don't want to get into a 'my ME is worse than yours' kind of debate. But I have only recently begun to notice that most literature (including from the charities) although noting the 25% severely affected, and emphasising the debilitating nature of...

I've heard it said and I see it on ME-pedia's main page for ME... but it's not cited. This is something that's hard to search for. Anyone know where this figure comes from? Is it for real? And how was it determined?

Thought it might be of interest. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/research-group-seeks-expose-weaknesses-science-and-they-ll-step-some-toes-if-they-have Excerpt: Metaresearchers investigate how scientists operate, and how they can slip off the rails. "We've seen things that we felt...

Paper on statistical bias - a bit beyond me, but maybe of interest to others http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/9/181190

Just in case any of those with Stats knowledge are interested... We're looking to hire someone to help us with a new tool we're building. The tool is designed to help non-statisticians get robust answers to questions using data. Our dream is that people will be able to drag and drop their...

Have been thinking about this a fair bit recently. One of the most common forms of advocacy with this illness is stressing how debilitating it is, but also how common, citing a greater prevelance than say, MS. However, it’s difficult to know how accurate our numbers really are with this. I...

No idea if this is of interest to anybody, all way over my head but I know some people here like to discuss P values. :) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2676503

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29283590 http://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2017-57776-001.pdf

I stumbled across someone who is working on an archive of graphs for various ME issues. Link to twitter account below: https://twitter.com/ME_infographics I noticed that this person is also posting on the "other place" (using a different user name, not same as twitter name). No link since I'm...