In this (technical) post, I illustrate how to calculate commonly used goodness of fit statistics. Goodness of fit statistics are essential components to doing statistical model building. They are how you tell whether your model is performing well ito explaining the patterns in your data. In practice, most of these are done automatically from the … Continue reading On being Sensitive and Specific – analytically speaking
Month: May 2018
Risk Adjustment 101
In this post, I describe risk adjustment, an important tool in health analytics. I’ll cover what it is, how it is used, how it is done and how well it performs. What it is In the sport of boxing, matches are held between two boxers of the same weight class and gender. A match would … Continue reading Risk Adjustment 101