Writing

Methods for medical research, with a continuing thread on clinical AI.

Methods explainers and dated dispatches on new papers, guidelines, and appraisal frameworks.

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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