Tag: Cancer

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post

Author
Gary Smith
Date
May 14, 2020

Categorized
Medicine and Health

Tagged
Cancer, COVID-19, Data Mining, Featured, Paul Brodeur, Power lines, Vitamin D}

Vitamin D and COVID-19: Is It Data or Noise?

_{Because random clusters occur naturally in large numbers, only randomized, controlled trials can tell us} _{Gary Smith

May 14, 2020

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Medicine and Health}

Random data shows geographic clusters. Thus some locations will inevitably have higher COVID-19 rates than others. As my example shows, associating these clusters with personal characteristics after the fact is not convincing scientific evidence. That’s where randomized, controlled trials are needed.

1: IBM’s Watson Is NOT Our New Computer Overlord

_{AI help, not hype: It won at Jeopardy (with specially chosen “softball” questions) but is not the hoped-for aid to cancer specialists} _{Robert J. Marks

December 31, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence}

One problem that has dogged Watson has nothing to do with AI or medicine. The journalism around the introduction of projects like Watson is long on the Gee Whiz! An Electronic Brain! It Won at Jeopardy! And it is short on systematic inquiry as to outcomes versus goals. Read More ›