Adjustment for confounders (in statistics)

There are 600 or 700 statisticians in Brighton at the moment for the Royal Statistical Society international conference. Someone likely has a better estimate.

Cafe Sci grabbed one last night, Prof Jennifer Visser-Rogers, to talk on: Living is a Risky Business.

One of the topics was adjustments, where you take something into account in your findings. I realised I don’t know how that’s done, but there’s a lovely video from Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter via the Winton Centre:

https://youtu.be/j8J2L_g76c4

Another topic was the advances in the way clinical trials can be run. Alpha Spending is one. 

I’d not heard of, but is important as treatments become more personalised and so you have less subjects to randomly pick from.