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readxl – X__1 is no longer

May

28

2019

For the last 12 months I’ve been using R and R markdown for the majority of my data projects. To be honest, I’m head over heels for improvements in reporting efficiency and a cleaner reproducible data pipeline. The tidyverse has revolutionised R for me. It has taken me a good while to really reprogram how ...

Generalisability of pharmacoepidemiological studies using restricted prescription data.

Oct

14

2015

I am glad to report that my first ever 1st author publication is now officially available. I’ve been honoured to help many people publish work over my career as a clinical trial statistician (and I always appreciated the effort involved in getting everything together and approved) but it has been a great experience to do ...

ANY function in SAS

Jan

21

2014

I have been using SAS for a few months now and am starting to think in SAS code. There are still times when I get frustrated mainly because my internal function library isn’t complete. Sometimes I’m sure SAS is missing a function I’m used to using elsewhere. Luckily this isn’t a big problem – you ...

End of my EndNote not the end of the world

Aug

13

2013

I recently found myself without my beloved referencing software and had to discover the free alternatives. You should try Zotero – it will probably win you over! It even has a few features which you might find make it even make it better than EndNote. As you develop as an academic you embrace technology because ...

My Ireland project

Aug

12

2013

I’m pleased to announce the first publication on my new project. Well not really but it is the first newsletter from the Cancer pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics (CAPPE), Trinity College Dublin. This is one of the research groups which the National Cancer Registry is collaborating with on this project. Here is excerpt about my project: Research ...

Converted to a Blog

Feb

12

2013

I have finally bitten the bullet and made the leap of faith from my trusty simple old <HTML> website (view my archive) to a WordPress based blog! I used WordPress to help build and maintain the website for our 2013 Australian Young Statisticians Conference (www.ysc2013.com) and I was so impressed by the ease at which ...