Reduction in Firearm Injuries During NRA Annual Conventions

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1712773

by pulisse • 8 years ago

5 5 8 years ago

nejm.org

yostrovs• 8 years ago

Cancer must have been cured, as there's obviously nothing left to study at Harvard Medical School.

RobLach2• 8 years ago

I feel your comment is politically tinged. This is far from a superfluous topic of study.

It's similar to the study where patient outcomes are more positive during medical conferences.

regress• 8 years ago

I haven't read the appendix in full detail, but how is it okay to run a linear regression here (instead of logistic regression) when the outcome is binary?

RobLach2• 8 years ago

I do get a sense of p-value massaging after paging through the appendices.

danielrk• 8 years ago

The authors claim in the appendix that "linear models were estimated due to failure of the maximum likelihood algorithm to converge for logistic models."

Reduction in Firearm Injuries During NRA Annual Conventions

Related Stories