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Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:50 PM Sorkin, John <jsor...@som.umaryland.edu> wrote: > > Can someone direct me to an R package that can run discrete-time competing > risk analyses? > > Thank you, > > John > > > > John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. > Professor of Medicine > Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics > University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and > Geriatric Medicine > Baltimore VA Medical Center > 10 North Greene Street > GRECC (BT/18/GR) > Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 > (Phone) 410-605-7119 > (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) > > > ________________________________ > From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Koenker, Roger W > <rkoen...@illinois.edu> > Sent: Monday, May 11, 2020 3:22 PM > To: Greg Snow <538...@gmail.com> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org <r-help@r-project.org>; karl adenener > <adene...@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [R] My dream ... > > Definitely a fortune: > > "the advantage of computers is not Artificial > Intelligence, but rather Artificial Patience" > > Greg Snow in response to a question about automated R-analysis. > > Roger Koenker > r.koen...@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:r.koen...@ucl.ac.uk> > Honorary Professor of Economics > Department of Economics, UCL > Emeritus Professor of Economics > and Statistics, UIUC > > > On May 11, 2020, at 7:11 PM, Greg Snow > <538...@gmail.com<mailto:538...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > It is a nice dream, but it is really abdicating ethical responsibility > to the computer instead of the researcher. And I personally don't > trust computers over people for this. > > What could go wrong? > > First, how do you guarantee that the statistical plan was locked in > place before the data was collected? With your proposed system some > people will still run a plan on their data, make changes, run again, > etc. until they get what they want, then claim that the statistical > plan came before the data that was used to tune it (I consider this > unethical, but see no way for R or computers in general to prevent > this without human oversight). > > Second, what if the data shows something that you did not anticipate? > This methodology would prevent you doing Exploratory Data Analysis and > adapting accordingly. If people start using this as a black box that > is "blessed" by the package as purely "objective", then many will not > even do any EDA and take the results as "True" when they are not even > appropriate. > > Better would be a regular system for submitting your code to a > clinical trial registry or some other pre-study registry so that other > can compare what you did to what you claimed you were going to do. If > you don't want to submit the entire code, you could submit an md5 hash > to the registry, then others could check to see if the code ran (put > into an online supplement) differs from the registered version. If > the data show something unanticipated then you can show the original > code and the modified code along with your reasoning and let the > consumer decide if the changes were justified. > > This could still be worked around if someone was really motivated, but > it is probably the best we will see. > > In my opinion the advantage of computers is not Artificial > Intelligence, but rather Artificial Patience (most AI that I have seen > is really doing a bunch of what I would consider to be boring, really > fast so people don't have to). Leave the Intelligence to the people. > > On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 9:10 AM karl adenener > <adene...@hotmail.com<mailto:adene...@hotmail.com>> wrote: > > It would be a dream, there would be a R-based software, which I configure > according to my study (type of data, limits for meaningful measurements, > handling of outliers and missing measurements, test method etc.), which then > reads my original measurement data and after some computing time the software > provides me with the statistical analysis. All steps of the evaluation have > to be defined before the start of the study and cannot be changed after the > start of the study. > > Where could problems arise? > Does anyone know of a suitable R-Package or software? > Does anyone have the time and inclination to create a flexibly customizable > package? > > greetings > Adenener > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org<mailto:R-help@r-project.org> mailing list -- To > UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstat.ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-help&data=02%7C01%7C%7C45b2872863f24e3f1ba608d7f5e0b3c3%7C717009a620de461a88940312a395cac9%7C0%7C0%7C637248217761516112&sdata=0uX2IMimnT3HFKDY%2Fubv0JjEMYcSEbOtgzqEuzDPFow%3D&reserved=0 > PLEASE do read the posting guide > https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.r-project.org%2Fposting-guide.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C45b2872863f24e3f1ba608d7f5e0b3c3%7C717009a620de461a88940312a395cac9%7C0%7C0%7C637248217761516112&sdata=UwzCHC4JGmC0YbjliQ8XhUdMSGju7EeyWfYVRFFVcjE%3D&reserved=0 > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. 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