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Yes. Bishops in the US closed parishes in March. The Pope granted a dispensation so that Catholics do not have the obligation to attend Mass during Lent and Holy Week.

One use case I have is embedding statistical calculations in larger applications. Calling R from the language the application is written in is a lot better than rewriting the stati…

You are comparing a program where the benefits vastly outweigh the cost to a program where the benefit is mostly speculative and the cost known. The cost of full body imaging is no…

People have commited suicide because of medical test results that turned out to be wrong. A decision has to be made about how many tests are performed and under what conditions. Un…

In medicine, there are physically harmless tests that can still cause harm. Full body scans are one of them. If something is found, it will likely have an emotional impact on the p…

More data is not always better. The collection process itself can be dangerous or unpleasant for the patient. Several years ago I worked on a study looking at the spread of bacteri…

When I was learning undergraduate mathematical statistics, my professor made it a point to connect the links between linear models and many different tests. In the back of Statisti…

At what point in your data pipeline do you check that your data adhears to constraints on it? Is it embedded in the code that performs the ingestion, at the point of the analysis o…

The beauty of R (and Python) is the ecosystem, not necessarily the language. Most statisticians want libraries that they can use to do the modeling so that they can focus their tim…

I imagined that would be the case, but don't have the CS background to prove one way or the other. I am currently learning OCaml and would love to use it more, but my job keeps me …

It is much more than a lack of maintenance. The weight of the cargo, the temperature of the road, the way the cargo is distributed in/on the trailer and manufacture defects can all…

It would be nice to see the sensitivity and specificity of the technique and for humans. False positives and false negatives are not equal in medicine, so we should report in such …

Her consent would also be needed.

Even when we have whatever technology would make heathcare less limited, there will need to be ways to measure the prognosis of the patient. Otherwise we would be giving very unple…

> It's great but with healthcare I don't think people should be treated as dollar signs. These kinds of models are also great for triage. Healthcare is a limited resource, especial…

It is the same in the US. All trucks that transport across state lines has to have an electronic log. Tickets issued to the driver can be noted on the saftey record of the company …

Truckers need $750k of liability insurance (but usually have $1M). For individual drivers, they are required to have liability, but it varies by state (and in some places a lot of …

I have worked in several environments as a statistician/data scientist where the project management for my projects ranged from 'let me know when your done' to burndown charts and …

> For instance, in 2013, the Obama administration mandated that copies of research conducted through federal agencies must be uploaded to free repositories within 12 months of publ…

StudyDesign.io provides a single place where statistical calculations for the design of experiments, such as sample size calculations and subject randomization, can be performed.

SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (US Based) As a data scientist with eight years of experience, I can take raw data, derive insights from them and turn them in to/embed them in production gra…