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An annotated collection of 2 papers on medicine, spanning 2005 to 2006. Featuring works by Christopher J. Gill, Graciela Demirdjian — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Why Clinicians Are Natural Bayesians
Christopher J. Gill, 2005 · BMJ, Vol. 330
A short BMJ editorial that argues doctors are already doing Bayesian reasoning — just informally, through pattern recognition and base rates — and would benefit from doing it explicitly. The piece is a clear, short intro…
Historia de los ensayos clínicos aleatorizados
Graciela Demirdjian, 2006 · Asociación Argentina de Pediatría — Programa de Actualización Continua
A Spanish-language history of randomised clinical trials — from James Lind's 1747 experiment on scurvy to the twentieth-century institutionalisation of the RCT as the gold standard for medical evidence. Demirdjian writes…