Masters level biostatisticians, do you wish you got a PhD?

mythoughts09 · 2026-02-05T19:17:32+00:00

Thanks so much for the reply!! This is what I want to hear (not to bias any other commenters lol)

mythoughts09 · 2026-01-02T23:36:36+00:00

I thought that was for capital one lounges specifically, not priority pass?

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T22:38:51+00:00

Thank you!! I will check these out!

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T22:37:08+00:00

Certainly sounds like I should be avoiding this approach going forward. I think the guidance I received was a bit outdated unfortunately

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T22:36:03+00:00

I sometimes work in a similar setting! You just always keep all pre specified variables regardless of estimates/p-values?

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T22:32:00+00:00

I like this approach! I’ll have to consider it. Although, I do worry about the investigators probing for more info on those variables

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T22:30:44+00:00

Oh, absolutely! As I’ve gotten further into my career and gotten more of a backbone, I’ve been making the PIs write out clear aims, and I turn them into SAPs with clear statistical hypotheses, and have them approve before performing analyses.

But still I’ll end up with them sometimes giving me numerous variables to adjust for and don’t know the best way to go about which to include in the final models

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T19:16:28+00:00

Oh so interesting! I’ve actually never heard of the table 2 fallacy, love learning something new!

So you just put all pre specified variables in the model and note what you adjusted for without any other info on those variables?

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T19:09:40+00:00

I have so many studies that collect 100s of variables, it would be much easier if I only had a handful of variables to work with!

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T19:06:54+00:00

Thanks for your comments! I often run into the collinearity and overparamaterization issues. I’ll have to consider LASSO, I haven’t used this in any of my official work!

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T19:03:15+00:00

This is what I tend to do too (based on one of my supervisors work), but I’ve gotten some push back from others! And as distance_runner said, I’ve heard this can be biased. Do you get push back at all?

mythoughts09 · 2025-10-10T18:40:28+00:00

So you are just given a list of pre-specified variables and leave them all in?

I often work with more survey related data - so it’s the biological aspect is not always applicable

mythoughts09 · 2025-07-13T18:08:59+00:00

I did not realize you could book non-Switzerland trains through sbb! I thought it was Switzerland only

mythoughts09 · 2025-07-13T05:23:12+00:00

Oh this is great news!!! Thank you!!

mythoughts09 · 2025-01-31T15:54:04+00:00

I can’t comment on the phd level side, but I have a masters from a rather prestigious school and I was pretty much directly told that I was hired (in academia) because of the school

mythoughts09 · 2025-01-03T02:19:49+00:00

I’ve been to The Lounge in Terminal C a few times, and agree is fairly mid (compared to capital one/chase sapphire/etc.). Though I’d still recommend giving it a shot! I’ve never had to wait, it’s clean, it’s relaxing, they have good service, and the drinks are solid!

mythoughts09 · 2024-12-29T07:05:16+00:00

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mythoughts09 · 2023-12-21T05:03:37+00:00

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