**NEW PAPER**: highlighting the long standing problems of poor methodology in health research - we must value methodology and do MUCH better to give value to patients & society (tinyurl.com/3fzuwva2) Centre for Statistics in Medicine Oxford NDORMS Medical Sciences University of Oxford #statstwitter #MedTwitter

If you're interested in injury epidemiology, you might want to read this: bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/…

We always need this reminder for the biomedical scientific community.

1… 2… & 3 🎩in top 10 MLB draft! ⚾️Top shelf talent that I’m SO proud of. They put in the work and even moreso are men of character. Congrats to Chase, Nick, & Seav… Go Deacs!

The second team EVER with three Top-10 picks in the same MLB draft: Wake Forest Baseball 🎩

**NEW pre-print** "Sample size for developing a prediction model with a binary outcome: targeting precise individual risk estimates to improve clinical decisions and fairness" + new Stata module: pmstabilityss Joie Ensor arxiv.org/abs/2407.09293 Feedback welcome 🙏

For clinical prediction models correcting for class imbalance is very often a very bad idea 👉 doi.org/10.1093/jamia/… 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.… 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2404.19494

LTE on ML for Football Injuries tinyurl.com/ybsv7mh9 w/ Patrick Ward Gary Collins 🇪🇺 Franco Impellizzeri Dr Tom Hughes We highlight: 1) poor quality of mentioned models; 2) Against balancing datasets; 3) Focus on risk not classification; 4) Following TRIPOD+AI; 5) Evaluating calibration

New paper Wake Forest Pitching Lab tinyurl.com/5eyr4p55 Using Statistical parametric mapping: continuous biomechanical curve associations of medball throws and pitching mechanics. Medball chop & push have different training benefits for pitching lead leg stabilization and extension

** NEW PAPER ** "Calculating the power of a planned individual participant data meta-analysis to examine prognostic factor effects for a binary outcome" Led by Rebecca Whittle Calculate power of IPDMA to investigate (un)adjusted prognostic factor effects onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jr…

Great to be a part of this project with Jaime Lynn Speiser. And glad. Molly is now at Wake Forest Biostatistics & Data Science !

NEW PAPER in the @BMJ_latest “Reporting on data sharing" bmj.com/content/386/bm… Highlighting the role of the EQUATOR Network & reporting guidelines in #openscience & #reproducibility by recommending transparency in data sharing for biomedical research.

Data sharing is important and should be a checklist item in all reporting guidelines, say EQUATOR Network in this position statement bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Hiring a few data engineering roles at the Miami Marlins - teamworkonline.com/baseball-jobs/…

Data sharing is important and should be a checklist item in all reporting guidelines, say EQUATOR Network More focus should be given to structuring and standardising data management and sharing plans bmj.com/content/386/bm…?

Very important

Really important work by christina le (she/her) ! So excited for this talk 😀

New tutorial on keeping continuous data continuous from a sport and clinical perspective. Patrick Ward Gary Collins 🇪🇺 Justin Losciale, PT, DPT, CSCS Linda Truong // LT tinyurl.com/bdz59425

New paper on training load in sport: flawed practices and weak logic. Stephen West Franco Impellizzeri Ian Shrier Patrick Ward Jo Clubb We discuss challenges faced when using training load monitoring and management to inform load management guidelines tinyurl.com/3e32dm3k