Writing
Methods for medical research, with a continuing thread on clinical AI.
The writing here runs in two series. Pick the one closest to what you came for, or use the category chips below to filter the archive.
Explainer
Methods explainers
The pieces of methodology the conversation keeps skipping, across medical research: calibration vs. discrimination, spectrum bias, heterogeneity, decision-curve analysis, certainty-of-evidence grading. One concept per piece, with a real study attached.
Dispatch
Research & methods news
Short, dated takes on new papers, guidelines, and the methods debates worth flagging. This is also where closer readings of individual studies and v0.1 drafts of appraisal frameworks now live. The timely material stays here on the site, where a dated record keeps its value, instead of being recirculated by email. Browse dispatches →
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