Comments on Larry May, Limiting Leviathan

Comments on Statistical Issues in May 2015

justified. Subjects who fail to satisfy an entry criterion may be excluded from the analysis without the possibility of introducing bias only under the following circumstances: 1) the entry criterion was measured prior to randomization; 2) the detection of the relevant eligibility violations can be made completely objectively; 3) all subjects receive equal scrutiny for eligibility violations (T...

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Ethical Perspectives on the Postmodern Communications Leviathan

Advertising and other forms of promotional activity have proliferated to such an extent that they may constitute a form of social pollution (Kitchen, 1994). The quantity and tone of communications to which consumers are exposed may have a subtle but pervasive effect on the social ecology of the developed world. Not only are Marketing Communications delivered in unprecedented quantities (Kitchen...

Leviathan: SPL Support on Filesystem Level

A lot of configurable software, especially in the domain of embedded and operating systems, is configured with a source preprocessor, mostly to avoid run-time overhead. However, developers then have to face a myriad of preprocessor directives and the corresponding complexity in the source code, even when they might only be working on the implementation of a single feature at a time. Thus, it ha...

Comments on Statistical Errors for May Issue 2012

In the above table, the proportions of smoker for each In this section, we would like to explain the properties of the relative risk (RR) and odds ratio (OR) which appeared in the article titled, “Misinterpreting odds ratio in the articles published in the Korean Journal of Family Medicine,” published in March 2012 by Kim et al., and the relationship between both measures in prospective and ret...