Uffe Heide-Jørgensen
uffeheide.bsky.social
Uffe Heide-Jørgensen
@uffeheide.bsky.social
mathematician posing as a statistician - I also like board games
I use this one: Mary's virgin explanation made Joseph suspect upstairs neighbour
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The careful reader (who knows the approximate absolute risk) will see this even if only the RR is presented, but I also think many would look at 1.25 and think this is important.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I agree in principle, but I think this ties back to the comment about vibes. I discussed results with a student today, RR of 1.25 RD of 0.2% (as I recall). The RR supports her hypothesis that something is going on, but the RD suggests it is clinically irrelevant in the given context.
November 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Linear algebra, or as it was known among the physicists at my university: the most import subject you will ever forget
October 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I can't help but wonder, if there was a group of people with a better than average immune system would they actually benefit more from (typical*) vaccines? Not that this in any way makes him right about anything.

*I don't know much about vaccines or how they work, so unsure if "typical" makes sense
August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If that case, I suggest you take the car
June 11, 2025 at 5:10 AM
for the first point, I think I have seen small/average/large for gestational age being sorted as average/large/small (both on an axis and in legends). For the second it could be something like this (www.flickr.com/photos/65802...)
June 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
likewise, if values of a continuous variable are treated as if categorical so that distance between values are the same regardless of the actual distances.
June 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
one of those figures where something is plotted within levels of an ordinal variable and the ordinal variable is sorted alphabetically (e.g., "high" "low" "medium") rather than by the natural order.
June 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I agree, the framework is a good (least crappy?) solution for observational studies, but the term TTE itself is like Feathers McGraw's rubber glove. (Some) Reader think they see a friendly chicken when they are in fact staring at a villainous penguin
May 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Thank you for the swift reply - at first I did not realize how close the book and the package (and by extension the github page) are to eachother, but it makes sense to have it all in one place. I will report there if I find anything else :)
May 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
In the same chapter there is also a 95% CI for a ratio going below 0 - is that a bug or a feature?
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Hi, just started reading your book - impressive work. Do you have a place for reporting errors etc. specifically for the book?

I would probably expect that the test below (Chapter 4) was for ratios being equal to 1, but it appears that tests are for ratios being 0. Am I missing a point here?
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
but centuries vary in number of leap years too - an let's not forget those leap seconds
April 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"ugler i mosen" is peculiar - I think it's from Denmark where it was originally "ulve i mosen" (wolves on the moor), but as wolves became extinct in Denmark it became "ugler i mosen". Norway must have taken the written word rather than the meaning (I believe it should have been "ugler i myren" then)
April 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM