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Cancer Survival Rates Are Misleading
Allen B. Downey
Five-year cancer survival rates are widely reported and often interpreted to mean that early detection saves lives, that a late fatal diagnosis would have been prevented by earlier…
Religious affiliation, education and Internet use
Allen B. Downey
Using data from the General Social Survey, we measure the effect of education and Internet use on religious affiliation. We find that Internet use is associated with decreased prob…
Estimating the age of renal tumors
Allen B. Downey
We present a Bayesian method for estimating the age of a renal tumor given its size. We use a model of tumor growth based on published data from observations of untreated tumors. W…
A novel changepoint detection algorithm
Allen B. Downey
We propose an algorithm for simultaneously detecting and locating changepoints in a time series, and a framework for predicting the distribution of the next point in the series. Th…