Re: [Discuss] a first analysis of instructor and trainee involvement data

2016-05-25 Thread Byron Smith
Thanks Greg (and anonymous statistician) for the great feedback. I used certification year as the covariate because I didn't have much else to work with (and I couldn't figure out how to get an overall survival function from statsmodels). I've added a bit to my initial analysis [1], but I'd love

Re: [Discuss] a first analysis of instructor and trainee involvement data

2016-05-25 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi Byron; thanks very much for this. We threw it in front of a statistician, and got this: With the caveat that I'm not actually a biostatistician, I think year is the wrong "treatment" here. You either want to 1. binarize before/after the major shift in instructor training procedure (n

Re: [Discuss] a first analysis of instructor and trainee involvement data

2016-05-23 Thread Byron Smith
Could someone take a look at this survival analysis of the same data [1]? I'm by no means an expert, so I'd like to know if I'm doing anything obviously wrong. [1]: http://bsmith89.github.io/swc-instructor-training-analysis/ On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Greg Wilson < gvwil...@software-carpen

Re: [Discuss] a first analysis of instructor and trainee involvement data

2016-05-20 Thread Karin Lagesen
This is simply awesome (both the stats and the results of them)! I was convinced we were losing a lot more people than that! karin On 20/05/16 17:51, Greg Wilson wrote: Following up on Wednesday's post about instructor training stats [1], Erin Becker (Data Carpentry's new Associate Director)

[Discuss] a first analysis of instructor and trainee involvement data

2016-05-20 Thread Greg Wilson
Following up on Wednesday's post about instructor training stats [1], Erin Becker (Data Carpentry's new Associate Director) has posted an analysis at [2]. I was very surprised to discover that less than 20% of people trained over a year ago haven't taught yet - I believed the number to be much