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Comparative mortality and risk factors for death among US Supreme Court Justices: An update

February 20, 2016

Background February 13, 2016 saw the unexpected death of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia was born March 11, 1936, making him just

Are doctors experts on life expectancy?

April 29, 2015

In Doctors are not experts on life expectancy1 David Strauss and Robert Shavelle noted that some clinicians testifying as expert witnesses on life expectancy did

Edward Tufte in San Francisco, 10 December 2013

January 6, 2014

Edward Tufte in San Francisco, 10 December 2013 Written by Reynolds RJ and Day SM on January 06 2014 We recently had the pleasure of

Losing sleep over denominators, Part II: The survival curves in Plioplys et al. 1998 cannot be right

November 4, 2013

We now turn our attention to 1998 study by Plioplys et al.,1 and in particular to one of the many figures in the study: Figure 4.

Losing sleep over denominators, Part I: An introduction to the problem of Plioplys 1998

October 31, 2013

Full disclosure: We consult professionally in the context of personal-injury litigation. One of us (SMD) has served on more than one occasion as an expert

Radiation and astronaut mortality, Part 3: Dose Estimation Tool

October 12, 2013

In Part 2, I detailed how I gathered individual measurements of equivalent radiation doses for locations in outer space. Here I relate how I converted

Radiation and astronaut mortality, Part 2: Gathering the measurements

October 11, 2013

In order to estimate radiation doses in space, I had to make some basic assumptions. First, I assumed that radiation dose levels would vary by

Radiation and astronaut mortality, Part 1: Conceptualizing the problem

October 10, 2013

As part of my doctoral dissertation for my PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, I completed a three-phase

Neural Tube Defect (NTD) cluster in Washington State

September 17, 2013

Neural tube defects (NTDs) are serious birth defects of the brain (anencephaly and encephalocele) or spinal cord (spina bifida). They are important birth defects to

Mortality of Severely Mentally Ill Outpatients in Texas, 2006-2008

July 2, 2013

An extensive body of research has documented that people with serious mental illness are at increased risk of mortality in comparison to the general population.

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