Why I . . . lunch with the team

Why lunch matters: assessing physicians' perceptions about industry relationships.

Many studies have shown that pharmaceutical marketing affects prescribing choices. Studies that have assessed the effects of educational interventions on perceptions of pharmaceutical promotion have found mixed results. This study assesses the short-term effects of an educational intervention about marketing tactics on the attitudes and fund of knowledge of residents, medical students, and atte...

No Free Lunch with the Sandwich

In nonlinear regression theory, the sandwich estimator of the covariance matrix of the model parameters is known as a consistent estimator, even when the parameterized model does not contain the regression. However, in the latter case, we emphasize the fact that the consistency of the sandwich holds only if the inputs of the training set are the values of independent identically distributed ran...

Why Do I Smoke and Why Do I Keep Smoking?

Shortly after smoking their last cigarette, smokers start to feel a negative mood change. This “withdrawal” from the chemical nicotine makes the smoker uncomfortable. Many smokers report feeling anxious, irritable and restless when they stop smoking. This is because they are not getting what the brain feels it needs to work well. Smokers usually experience relief from these unpleasant feelings ...

Leon Festinger: Lunch With Leon.

The Durban deep proto-team catastrophe--why did they die?