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• Comment on Epi 101: Direct Age Adjustment by Hand and With R by Epi 101: Indirect Age Adjustment by Hand and in R – EpidemioLogical April 19, 2019 01:03
  […] time, we talked about direct age adjustment. In direct age adjustment, you know what the age-specific death counts and rates are. Because […]
• Comment on ¿Me extrañaron? by the #1 Itinerary April 18, 2019 11:04
  Great post
• Comment on ¿Me extrañaron? by wzrd1 April 18, 2019 05:53
  Oddly, this was one of a rare posts, where Google Translate actually worked accurately. Seriously, that is quite rare. Google Translate, otherwise, is buggier than a bait shop.
• Comment on What if Vaccines Are Harmful? by René F. Najera, DrPH April 15, 2019 12:33
  Thanks.
• Comment on What if Vaccines Are Harmful? by Alexander Goldstein April 15, 2019 09:12
  Thre is a mistake in the text regarding name of the surveillance system on vaccine safety in the US. Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) is correct (not Vaccine Data Safetylink, VDS).
• Comment on The Canaries in the Coalmine by wzrd1 April 6, 2019 00:50
  Read it on his facebook page. Here's a news article. https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-hs-video-death-20180717-story.html
• Comment on The Canaries in the Coalmine by René F. Najera, DrPH April 6, 2019 00:14
  Oh, geez. No way... Link?
• Comment on The Canaries in the Coalmine by wzrd1 April 5, 2019 23:44
  I looked up the patient dumping incident. The psychotherapist who stayed with her, while waiting for the ambulance he summoned arrive, died of cancer.
• Comment on Don’t Get Rid of Your Outliers Just Because by wzrd1 April 3, 2019 02:19
  I've looked at some fiendish equations in my time, in one, a full dozen functions, performing a quantum mechanical treatment of classical phenomena. I simply thanked our wise folk, who invented electronic computers. I'd have taken a month of Sundays working that out with a slide rule. Yeah, I can still work a slide rule.
• Comment on Don’t Get Rid of Your Outliers Just Because by René F. Najera, DrPH April 2, 2019 11:57
  One of my bosses at the Maryland Dept. of Health said his daughter was an astrophysicist. He said she had moved on from numbers to symbols and Greek letters. I wouldn't even know where to begin.