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JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Clinical Research with Kevin P. Weinfurt, PhD, and Bryce B. Reeve, PhD. Related Content:

JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Immortal Time Bias in Observational Studies with Kabir Yadav, MDCM, MS, MSHS. Related Content:

JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Adjustment for Baseline Characteristics in Randomized Clinical Trial with Lars W. Andersen, MD, MPH, PhD, DMSc. Related Content:

JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Odds Ratios—Current Best Practice and Use with Edward C. Norton, PhD. Related Content:

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Estimands, Estimators, and Estimates with Roderick J. Little, PhD, in the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods series. Related Content:

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Interpreting the Results of Intention-to-Treat, Per-Protocol, and As-Treated Analyses with Valerie A. Smith, DrPH. Related Content:

JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Time-to-Event Analysis with Juliana Tolles, MD, MHS. Related Content:

JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Adjusting for Nonadherence or Stopping Treatments with Amanda I. Adler, MD, PhD, and Nicholas Latimer, PhD. Related Content:

JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Worst-Rank Score Methods—A Nonparametric Approach to Informatively Missing Data with John M. Lachin, ScD. Related Content:

JAMA Statistical Editor Roger Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Using Latent Class Analysis to Identify Hidden Clinical Phenotypes with Heather G. Allore, PhD.

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JAMA Statistical Editor Roger Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Use of Run-in Periods in Randomized Trials with Jane M. Armitage, MBBS.

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JAMA Statistical Editor Roger Lewis, MD, discusses Regression Discontinuity Design with Matthew L. Maciejewski, PhD.

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JAMA Statistical Editor Roger Lewis, MD, discusses Case-Control Studies: Using “Real-world” Evidence to Assess Association, With Dr Irony.

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Equipoise in Research—Integrating Ethics and Science in Human Research with Alex John London, PhD

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Equipoise in Research—Integrating Ethics and Science in Human Research

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Bayesian Analysis: Using Prior Information to Interpret the Results of Clinical Trials with Melanie Quintana, PhD

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Cost-effectiveness analysis defines trade-offs between costs, harms, and benefits of alternative treatments and combines them into a single metric, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), that can inform decisions about which interventions to recommend when limited resources are available. Gillian Sanders-Schmidler, PhD, professor of population health sciences and medicine at Duke University, explains the method in terms clinicians can understand.

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JAMA Deputy Editor Edward Livingston, MD, discusses "Multiple Comparison Procedures" with Dr. Jing Cao, PhD

Logistic regression is one of the most commonly used statistical analytic tools in the medical literature. William Meurer, MD, from the University of Michigan, and Juliana Tolles, MD, from UCLA, discuss a JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods article they wrote entitled “Logistic Regression Diagnostics: Understanding How Well a Model Predicts Outcomes.”

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Logistic Regression

Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discusses Randomization in Clinical Trials from the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods

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Randomization in Clinical Trials

Cluster randomized trials are performed when an intervention must be delivered to a group of patients like when testing new nursing protocols on award or different means for cleaning beds on a ward. One type of cluster trials is called a stepped-wedge where every cluster in the study ultimately undergoes the intervention. How this works it is explained by Susan Ellenberg, PhD, from the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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The Stepped-Wedge Clinical Trial

JAMA Deputy Editor Edward Livingston, MD, discusses Minimal Clinically Important Difference: Defining What Really Matters to Patients with Anna E. McGlothlin, PhD

One of the most common causes for problems we see in manuscripts at JAMA is an inappropriately calculated study sample size. This seemingly mysterious process is explained by Lynne Stokes, PhD, professor of Statistical Science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

JAMA Deputy Editor Edward Livingston, MD, discusses Pragmatic Trials: Practical Answers to “Real-world” Questions with Harold C. Sox, MD, of PCORI

JAMA Deputy Editor Edward Livingston, MD, discusses "Cluster Randomized Trials: Evaluating Treatments Applied to Groups" with William J. Meurer, MD, MS

Ed Livingston, MD, FACS, AGAF, discusses Noninferiority Trials: Is a New Treatment Almost as Effective as Another? with Amy Kaji, MD, PhD

Clinical researchers and biostatisticians use highly specialized language to help them discuss statistics and research methods efficiently. In 2019 JAMA published the JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods, a book of short reviews that translate that specialized language and explain statistics and methods to a broad physician readership. The book's editors and authors, Edward Livingston, MD, and Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD, discuss their approach to choosing statistical topics and their objectives in compiling the reviews into book format.

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