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Topic: The Flu | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 1084 Views: 309917 |
Forum: Health Posted: 9:56 am Subject: Fair enough |
If formatting is more important from an epistemological viewpoint than intelligent debate then I concede. | |
Topic: The Flu | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 1084 Views: 309917 |
Forum: Health Posted: 8:49 am Subject: The prodigal comments |
Thanks for the opportunity Mick...
I could start with 'If true, this certainly finishes the germ theory of disease once and for all.' Which I think was the comment which provided me with some worr ... |
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Topic: The Flu | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 1084 Views: 309917 |
Forum: Health Posted: 4:01 pm Subject: Epidemiologists |
Reluctant as I am to wade in to this morass... Clearly not all models are equal and most are wrong but some are useful. However, throwing our collective arms in the air and declaring a pox on all thei ... | |
Topic: National Statistics | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 52 Views: 35857 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 2:43 pm Subject: Consanguineous marriage and infant mortality in West Mids |
Makes for interesting reading. As for a solution, I don't think that this is amenable to reason or logic, as you imply, Mick. | |
Topic: National Statistics | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 52 Views: 35857 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 2:41 pm Subject: Consanguineous marriage and infant mortality in West Mids |
Most recent report is here
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/515800/InfantMortalityInTheWestMidlandsFinal.pdf |
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Topic: National Statistics | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 52 Views: 35857 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 1:59 pm Subject: Six sigma, lean and Toyota |
The first adoptees were Toyota who employed this methodology. It has been described variously as lean, six sigma and Kaizen.
Interestingly too - Toyota have been keen to create an industry out of ... |
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Topic: National Statistics | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 52 Views: 35857 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:58 am Subject: SPG |
Yes, SPG was a favourite of mine too - not related. | |
Topic: National Statistics | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 52 Views: 35857 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:57 am Subject: SPC charts |
Gladly Mick,
Statistical process control charts (SPCs) are a very useful method of analysing quantitative runs of data to look for actual trends. They start with a look at all your data to crea ... |
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Topic: National Statistics | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 52 Views: 35857 |
Forum: Politics Posted: 10:36 am Subject: Voter registration data |
Looking at the data from a run chart perspective the figures are part of a common cause variation pattern and do not represent any sort of special cause variation.
An SPC chart which I have built co ... |
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Topic: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 14 Views: 24615 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:10 pm Subject: Should we screen for neurodegenerative illness for example? |
Background to the problem
The World Health Organisation has estimated that 47.5 million people worldwide have dementia and there are 7.7 million new cases each year. In the UK in 2014, there were a ... |
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Topic: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 14 Views: 24615 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:41 am Subject: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? |
Yes, except you could live to a ripe old age of a completely unrelated problem but serve out your last 30 plagued with anxiety that every bout of wind would be your death knell...
Meanwhile costing ... |
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Topic: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 14 Views: 24615 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:46 pm Subject: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? |
I can furnish you with a few tricksy examples, but the most illuminating concerns abdominal aortic aneurysms. A highly laudable project a few years ago set out to screen (ultrasound scan) for this dan ... | |
Topic: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 14 Views: 24615 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 5:34 pm Subject: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? |
If only life were that simple...
Screening is not easy and can result in unintended consequences. Wilson and Junger proposed criteria which are worth considering, which are The condition sought ... |
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Topic: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 14 Views: 24615 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 12:13 pm Subject: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? |
No, I really cannot conceive that doctors will be replaced with robots.
As for being replaced by patients, an interesting idea but sadly all the Boolean algorithms in the world will fail to resolv ... |
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Topic: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? | |
Alfred Wegener Replies: 14 Views: 24615 |
Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:19 am Subject: Artificial intelligence - is it any way intelligent at all? |
Health care is a complex adaptive system.
Diagnosis Clinical diagnosis is one aspect of this system and is an additional layer of sophistication, as it relies on complex interactions between cl ... |
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