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Final Examination Review

Final Examination Review. Tom Newman 12/10/09. Outline. Announcements Follow-up from last week Exam review Course evaluation. Test-based confidence intervals. Pointed out by David Naeger: From help epitab:

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Final Examination Review

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  1. Final Examination Review Tom Newman 12/10/09

  2. Outline • Announcements • Follow-up from last week • Exam review • Course evaluation

  3. Test-based confidence intervals • Pointed out by David Naeger: • From help epitab: • tb requests that test-based confidence intervals be calculated wherever appropriate in place of confidence intervals based on other approximations or exact confidence intervals. • We recommend that test-based confidence intervals be used only for pedagogical purposes and never for research work • So tb makes the confidence intervals and the P-values agree, but it is by making the CI wrong.

  4. Follow-up from last week • How many read Chapter 12? • How many read additional readings?

  5. Safety seats on airplanes • 8/01 FDA issues "Notice of Proposed Rule Making" to require infant safety seats on airplanes • 9/11/01 FDA suddenly has other priorities • 2003 TN's paper published • 8/25/05 Infant safety seat requirement abandoned

  6. AP Story on FAA Ruling • "During takeoff, landing and turbulence, adults are required to be buckled up, baggage and coffee pots are stowed, computers are turned off and put away, yet infants and toddlers need not be restrained," [NTSB Acting Chair] Rosenker said in a statement. • FAA spokesman Greg Martin said requiring the seats would harm more children than it would protect. • "A lap child held firmly by a parent doesn't result in second- or third-degree burns like an unsecured pot of coffee," Martin said. • Three children who sat in their parents' laps were among the 309 who survived the fiery crash of an Air France Airbus A340 after it overshot the Toronto runway, Martin noted. Miller, L: Plane safety seat ruling unchanged for childrenhttp://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050827/1073311.asp, accessed 9/4/05

  7. Don't be discouraged “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), US anthropologist

  8. What you can do • Share your enthusiasm for this material • Talk to friends and colleagues • Post a review (or just rate) EBD on Amazon or other sites (if you liked it) • Write your senators and congress people

  9. Language in current Senate bill (12/6/09) • LIMITATIONS ON CERTAIN USES OF COMPARATIVE CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH (p1684)” ‘(e) The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute established under section 1181(b)(1) shall not develop or employ a dollars-per-quality adjusted life year (or similar measure that discounts the value of a life because of an individual’s disability) as a threshold to establish what type of health care is cost effective or recommended…

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