Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk: study

Re:Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk:... by dekhn on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:07PM (#14981782)

Tell ya what. As a homework assignment, can you do enough stats research to do a reasonable critique of the methodology?

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Re:Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk:... by josinalvo on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:25PM (#14981949)

I am very interested in the answer key for this homework...

In all seriousness, I'd love a breakdown, and references for further study (on how to read medical papers, or scientific papers in general)

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Re:Marijuana use holds three-fold blood pressure death risk:... by dekhn on Thursday August 10, 2017 @01:30PM (#14981997)

I suggest starting with "Primer on Biostatistics" by Glantz https://www.amazon.com/Primer-Biostatistics-Seventh-Glantz-P... which contains the basics you need to know to do analysis of stats analysis.

I haven't read it, but you'll probably want a book like https://www.amazon.com/Design-Studies-Medical-Research/dp/04... or https://www.amazon.com/Study-Design-Statistical-Analysis-Cli...

realistically you need at least a master's degree in a quantitative field to get the time and knowledge required to evaluate studies like this. I see a lot of armchair "scientists" trying to evaluate studies, it's very common to see basic mistakes in evaluating papers.

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