Stephen Senn
@stephensenn.bsky.social
Swiss & British statistician.
You categorised patients as responders or non responders by dichotomising a change from baseline?
You triple criminal!
You triple criminal!
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You categorised patients as responders or non responders by dichotomising a change from baseline?
You triple criminal!
You triple criminal!
Today’s walk was from Silverburn to Flotterstone via the Silverburn Quarry, The Kirk Rd, Carnethy, Turnhouse & “The Biscuit Tin” to a pint of Pentland IPA at the Flotterstone Inn
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today’s walk was from Silverburn to Flotterstone via the Silverburn Quarry, The Kirk Rd, Carnethy, Turnhouse & “The Biscuit Tin” to a pint of Pentland IPA at the Flotterstone Inn
Just finished reading this novel by my brother-in-law and am impressed. Software development and maintenance as a relentless treadmill to which the programmers and coders are chained.
A nice touch is that imagines a Britain in which Thanet is still an island.
A nice touch is that imagines a Britain in which Thanet is still an island.
Human Software is now available via Waterstones, Barnes and Noble, Amazon and many others including Kobo, Leanpub.
For all the ways to buy in paperback and e-book:
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#booksky #writingcommunity #selfpublished
For all the ways to buy in paperback and e-book:
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#booksky #writingcommunity #selfpublished
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Just finished reading this novel by my brother-in-law and am impressed. Software development and maintenance as a relentless treadmill to which the programmers and coders are chained.
A nice touch is that imagines a Britain in which Thanet is still an island.
A nice touch is that imagines a Britain in which Thanet is still an island.
Today we had a family lunch at The Boat in Catherine-de-Barnes followed by a walk along the canal. #Warwickshire
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Today we had a family lunch at The Boat in Catherine-de-Barnes followed by a walk along the canal. #Warwickshire
Stop interpreting clinical trials as if they were surveys.
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Illegible Eligible
Several times recently, in published papers and in papers I have been asked to review, I have come across the quite incorrect claim that the eligibility criteria of a clinical trial define the target ...
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November 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Stop interpreting clinical trials as if they were surveys.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/illegi...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/illegi...
The target population for the research question is the population of people who would satisfy the eligibility criteria. “
Wrong x 2
1) The eligibility criteria define who doesn’t come into the trial not who does.
2) We generalise from quite different trials to populations eg bioequivalence trials.
Wrong x 2
1) The eligibility criteria define who doesn’t come into the trial not who does.
2) We generalise from quite different trials to populations eg bioequivalence trials.
November 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The target population for the research question is the population of people who would satisfy the eligibility criteria. “
Wrong x 2
1) The eligibility criteria define who doesn’t come into the trial not who does.
2) We generalise from quite different trials to populations eg bioequivalence trials.
Wrong x 2
1) The eligibility criteria define who doesn’t come into the trial not who does.
2) We generalise from quite different trials to populations eg bioequivalence trials.
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Human Software: A Life in I.T. - A Novel by Richard W. Bown - BookBub
AI, data centres, job losses, globalization. What happens when AI tries to ruin your life? Even if you don t work in tech, this story pulls you in with its vivid world-building and well-rounded charac...
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October 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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'Tea and Grit: A Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road' is coming soon! #Syria #Türkiye #Iran #CentralAsia #Uzbekistan #Tajikistan #SilkRoad #CycleTouring #TravelWriting #Poetry
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October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
'Tea and Grit: A Bicycle Journey along the Silk Road' is coming soon! #Syria #Türkiye #Iran #CentralAsia #Uzbekistan #Tajikistan #SilkRoad #CycleTouring #TravelWriting #Poetry
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Today we had a circular walk from Torphin with our son, daughter-in-law and our two granddaughters. A cold day out but with beautiful sunshine.
#hiking #Pentlands
#hiking #Pentlands
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today we had a circular walk from Torphin with our son, daughter-in-law and our two granddaughters. A cold day out but with beautiful sunshine.
#hiking #Pentlands
#hiking #Pentlands
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New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
A LEAP into the future, or off a cliff: Wellcome LEAP's new $50M program
A few days ago, I saw this post on LinkedIn: How does the gut microbiome shape early brain development? That’s what FORM, a new $50 million...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
A misty day in the Pentlands. I did a circular from W Linton via Upper Cairn, N Muir Hill, Nether Cairn, Mendick Hill and the bridge on the West Water. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A misty day in the Pentlands. I did a circular from W Linton via Upper Cairn, N Muir Hill, Nether Cairn, Mendick Hill and the bridge on the West Water. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland
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"Normalized incompetence" seems to sum up my day-to-day!
This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
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The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.
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October 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"Normalized incompetence" seems to sum up my day-to-day!
This morning I did a circular walk from Hillend via the valley of The Boghall Burn to Allermuir, Caerketton and back. #hiking #Scotland #Pentlands
Conditions were very windy.
Conditions were very windy.
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This morning I did a circular walk from Hillend via the valley of The Boghall Burn to Allermuir, Caerketton and back. #hiking #Scotland #Pentlands
Conditions were very windy.
Conditions were very windy.
@resfoundation.bsky.social
“….average family wealth per adult in the top wealth decile and those in the middle (fifth decile)” Strange. If you mean tenth, say so but then is the 5th tenth the middle of 10? If you really mean “decile”, there are 9 of them but nobody is “in” any decile.
“….average family wealth per adult in the top wealth decile and those in the middle (fifth decile)” Strange. If you mean tenth, say so but then is the 5th tenth the middle of 10? If you really mean “decile”, there are 9 of them but nobody is “in” any decile.
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
@resfoundation.bsky.social
“….average family wealth per adult in the top wealth decile and those in the middle (fifth decile)” Strange. If you mean tenth, say so but then is the 5th tenth the middle of 10? If you really mean “decile”, there are 9 of them but nobody is “in” any decile.
“….average family wealth per adult in the top wealth decile and those in the middle (fifth decile)” Strange. If you mean tenth, say so but then is the 5th tenth the middle of 10? If you really mean “decile”, there are 9 of them but nobody is “in” any decile.
“ It is not my fault. A large language model did it and ran away.” Modern Folk Saying
October 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“ It is not my fault. A large language model did it and ran away.” Modern Folk Saying
This www.linkedin.com/posts/aleksa...?
on LinkedIn on the exciting topic of Hawkes processes by @alxndrmlk.bsky.social might interest @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social
on LinkedIn on the exciting topic of Hawkes processes by @alxndrmlk.bsky.social might interest @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social
Granger causality is not causality, but...
Here's a new causal discovery algorithm for time series with latent confounders
A Hawkes process is a stochastic process (think a statistical model… | ...
Granger causality is not causality, but...
Here's a new causal discovery algorithm for time series with latent confounders
A Hawkes process is a stochastic process (think a statistical model describ...
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October 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This www.linkedin.com/posts/aleksa...?
on LinkedIn on the exciting topic of Hawkes processes by @alxndrmlk.bsky.social might interest @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social
on LinkedIn on the exciting topic of Hawkes processes by @alxndrmlk.bsky.social might interest @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social
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LOL! PO cum café cum general store cum bus station. Not to mention the famous bus shelter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unst_Bu...
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
Unst Bus Shelter - Wikipedia
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September 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
LOL! PO cum café cum general store cum bus station. Not to mention the famous bus shelter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unst_Bu...
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
This morning we walked to Footdee and back from the centre of Aberdeen.
September 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This morning we walked to Footdee and back from the centre of Aberdeen.
Today’s hike was from Carlops to Flotterstone over Patie’s Hill, Spittal Hill, Green Law, W Kip, E Kip, Scald Law, Carnethy Hill & Turnhouse Hill. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland
September 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Today’s hike was from Carlops to Flotterstone over Patie’s Hill, Spittal Hill, Green Law, W Kip, E Kip, Scald Law, Carnethy Hill & Turnhouse Hill. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland
They should say, “We are asking you whether you would be prepared to review a revised version of the paper in order to convey an air of politeness and concern for your time but have no intention of taking any account of your answer.”
September 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
They should say, “We are asking you whether you would be prepared to review a revised version of the paper in order to convey an air of politeness and concern for your time but have no intention of taking any account of your answer.”
“ You will find that much amateur discussion of evolutionary biology involves the origin of the specious.”
Sayings of Confuseus
Sayings of Confuseus
September 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“ You will find that much amateur discussion of evolutionary biology involves the origin of the specious.”
Sayings of Confuseus
Sayings of Confuseus