Taya Collyer

ISCB 2026 is in Freiburg Germany. The JSM is in Boston :)

Not at a biostats conference! Come join us haha.

Hello #statsky folks I had a baby but I'm back.

What did I miss? 😅

New #preprint with @nicolewhite.bsky.social and @tayacollyer.bsky.social. We examined if Australian ethics committees use qualified statistical expertise. Our results revealed a large variation in practice, with some committees using qualified statisticians […] (1 of 4)
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At the stage of data analysis where I don't even know how many people are in the cohort, nothing is consistent and nothing adds up 👍

(Been around long enough to know this happens on every single project with big, messy, administrative data)

There's a slim possibility I can make it to Switzerland from Australia for this ISCB. I am hoping/planning to visit @laurewynants.bsky.social and could visit Utrecht if there was time...

I will have a 6 month old baby with me, but how hard can it be? 😜

Me trying to get it all done before maternity leave:

#statsky #episky

Ok this one is a lot 👀

#statsky #biostats

A tough round with just 1/10 funded. Hoping you got some good news! 🌻

Yeah ok. The keyword Dementia will get you a long way there but I'll have a think.

If you include midlife in life course then yes we do a lot of stuff looking at midlife exposures and cognition in later life. And we have one 30y study of diabetics underway. Those datasets are pretty rare!

Everyone seems to have a different definition of what counts as life course! Maybe?

(Also... I am really interested in looking at Disruptive papers in the dementia literature...)

Working on a tiny human being! (Until February) 🍼

Otherwise just working my magic with large hospital datasets and doing some cool dementia population epi 😊

Welcome aboard, sir!

Mate I think at this point you just need to come out as a Sociologist of Scientific Knowledge. Come and join the SSK club!!

Reference Collection to push back against "Common Statistical Myths" Note: This topic is a wiki, meaning that this main body of the topic can be edited by others. Use the Reply button only to post questions or comments about material contained in the body, or to sugge...

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back.

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Man I've got to upgrade my stata 😅

Ah I see. Well, being a time-poor academic I would need to want that for myself more than I want to push out the next paper... That has always been the crux of the challenge for me.

I am a stata holdout.

Only one dataset in memory is v lame. But I like the way regressions are reported, margins is a showstopping command, and the syntax is so much more efficient.

I use R for weird things which are too hard in stata. But for my white-bread biostats stuff, I'm hooked...

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Slurpy Pikachu backrub for you ✨

Soooo it's a targeted bribe then??

I am a data lady! 👋

Clinician on Friday: I have 20 patients, 5 have a condition and 15 do not. How do I get a p-value showing that my data is significant?

Me: What is your hypothesis?

Clinician: I don't have one. How do I get a p-value?

#statsky #biostats #episky

This.... Is art.

Ok I don't know what is happening but I'm grateful for all the new followers!

Get ready for some cheerful biostats snark in your feed! 🏆

This is so important. Routine, unthinking adjustment for race is a really bad habit.

In peer review I have started asking authors to outline the explicit hypothesis about race, or remove race from multivariable analyses.

(So far everyone has responded by removing race)

#episky #statsky

Crikey this is so true. I went too low with a recent paper and the review was literal gibberish. Parsing and responding to gibberish is exhausting...

#academia

Real conversation from biostat consult (outcome was measured on discharge from hospital):

Biostat: 'I notice you excluded the participants who died?'

Investigator: 'Yes, because there was no outcome'

Biostat: 'I would argue that there is an outcome...'

#statsky #biostats

Well this is extremely cool

I suspect they just didn't know what to do with the deaths...

Reviewing a study which treated death and stenting as equivalent in survival analysis.

Just want to share that with the group. 💣

#statsky