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John W Stevens

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Retired. Statistician. Bayesian. Interests in Drug Development and HTA. Loves music, vinyl, CDs and my iPod: Beatles, Bolan, Bowie, Black, Indigo Girls, Cat Stevens, The Vaccines among many others. Indoor & outdoor bowls: CIBC and Brush Bowls Club

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I am generating a network diagram in R using #multinma and the #plot function:
library("multinma")
bowl<-read.csv("")
bowl_net<-set_agd_arm(bowl,study= Match,trt=Player,r = Result,n = Games,trt_ref=NULL)
plot(bowl_net, weight_edges = TRUE)
How do I change the line (edges) thicknesses?

15.07.2025 10:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hi Dan,

You said that raising tax thresholds is costs £1bn for every £100 increase in the personal allowance. But what proportion of that £100 is expected to be spent in the economy and returned in the form of tax?

12.05.2025 09:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So, my #BP is a bit high and my 10 yr #QRISK 3 score is 16.6%.But if I put on 6 kg it goes down to 16.5%.If I move to Beckenham, where I moved from, it goes up to 18.1%.Not much better if I move back to my home town, 17.4%.Oh, and if I lose 5 kg it goes to 16.7%. GP prescribed #statins. For age?

11.04.2025 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oops, I meant "its highest annual no. of citations in 2024".

03.03.2025 16:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Assurance in clinical trial design Conventional clinical trial design involves considerations of power, and sample size is typically chosen to achieve a desired power conditional on a specified treatment effect. In practice, there is ...

This paper was published in 2005, has been cited 323 times according to Google Scholar and achieved its highest annual no. of citations (35) in 2004.

Delighted that is still has an impact:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

02.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

1st cousin twice removed - statement of service during WW1.

"Discharged in consequence of being killed in action.
The discharge of the above named man is hereby approved."

Could it ever not be approved under such consequences?

02.03.2025 20:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I finally left that other place.

Hoping to keep in touch with my academic interests, real news and things that make me happy.

23.02.2025 16:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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