Thursday, August 30, 2007
Dog Quiz Club
The first rule of dog quiz club, is you do not talk about dog quiz club.
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Labels: silliness, trivia, Virginia Tech
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
More Data from the Lancet Oncology Study
Earlier this week, the Telegraph reported on cancer survival rates in Europe. Being a British paper, their primary concern was that the UK was pretty bad compared to the rest of Europe.
Reason, however, noticed that the authors had compared the US to Europe and we beat every country in overall 5-yr cancer survival (the point when for most cancers your said to be "cured").
This prompted various discussions around the blogosphere, such as this comment thead over on Dean's World (from where I took the graphic), among people not used to controlling inputs when measuring performance across systems (see life expectancy - an output metric which is a function of the process - i.e., the health care system - and the input -i.e., genetics & cultural factors).
Various folks were making assertions that the numbers were only that way because of the higher prevalence of skin cancer in the US skewing the aggregation and that France would've done much better. So, I downloaded the actual paper (Recent cancer survival in Europe: a 2000–02 period analysis of EUROCARE-4 data) and here’s the cancer by cancer breakdowns between the Euro-4 average (the countries listed in the original articles) and the US average (5 yr survival percentages) for all the cancers considered in the paper.
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Cancer | Euro Av | US
Stomach | 24.9 | 25.0
Colorectal | 56.2 | 65.5
Lung | 10.9 | 15.7
Soft-tissue | 61.2 | 65.1
Skin | 86.1 | 92.3
Breast | 79.0 | 90.1
Cervix | 60.4 | 65.8
Uterine | 78.0 | 82.3
Prostate | 77.5 | 99.3
Testicular | 97.3 | 95.4
Kidney | 55.7 | 62.6
Thyroid | 83.2 | 93.5
Hodgkin’s | 81.4 | 80.6
NH-Lymphoma | 54.6 | 62.0
Acute Mye Leuk | 14.8 | 13.9
Chronic Mye Leuk | 32.2 | 36.0
All men | 47.3 | 66.3
All women | 55.8 | 62.9
Also FYI, France did have some numbers in there (just not a lot so their gender average wasn’t computed).
Cancer | France | US
Stomach | 20.7 | 25.0
Colorectal | 59.9 | 65.5
I was also asked for the 95% confidence intervals...
Cancer | Euro Av | US
Stomach | 23.7-26.2 | 23.8-26.2
Colorectal | 55.3-57.2 | 64.9-66.1
Lung | 10.5-11.4 | 15.3-16.1
Soft-tissue | 58.3-64.2 | 62.8-67.5
Skin | 84.3-88.0 | 91.5-93.1
Breast | 78.1-80.0 | 89.6 -90.5
Cervix | 57.7-63.2 | 64.1-67.6
Uterine | 76.2-79.9| 81.2-83.4
Prostate | 76.5-78.6 | 98.9-99.8
Testicular | 96.4-98.2 | 94.0-96.8
Kidney | 53.6-58.0 | 61.3-63.9
Thyroid | 80.9-85.6 | 92.2-94.8
Hodgkin’s | 78.9-84.1 | 78.8-82.4
NH-Lymphoma | 52.7-56.6 | 61.0-63.0
Acute Mye Leuk | 13.4-16.4 | 12.6-15.2
Chronic Mye Leuk | 29.0-35.7 | 33.1-39.1
All men | 46.8-47.8 | 66.0-66.6
All women | 55.3-56.2 | 62.6-63.2
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MAC vs PC SouthPark Style
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Will the troubles for Michael ever end?
Forget the fact that Vick is about to plea-bargain to dog-fighting charges thereby likely ending his NFL career, he's being sued for "63,000,000,000.00 Billion dollars"!! 1
What is being alleged of Michael to justify a claim of "63,000,000,000.00 billion dollars"?
From the actual filing: (seriously, you should read it, I think it'll be an all-time classic)
1. Honestly, I'm not certain if the billion is redundant or if the man actually wants 63x10^18 dollars. Either way, that's one heck of a contingency fee.
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What is being alleged of Michael to justify a claim of "63,000,000,000.00 billion dollars"?
From the actual filing: (seriously, you should read it, I think it'll be an all-time classic)
stealing dogsPersonally, I think being subjected to insane lawsuits will be the new Madden curse. Next year, I expect Vince Young will be sued for developing mind control devices that penetrate aluminum foil and aiding and abetting the alien invasion of earth. That and spam spam - unsolicited email about the Hormel product.
Using said dogs for dog fighting
Selling dogs on Ebay
Using the proceeds of that sale to purchase missiles from Iran
Subjecting one Mr Riches to "microwave testing"
Pledging allegiance to Al Qaeda
1. Honestly, I'm not certain if the billion is redundant or if the man actually wants 63x10^18 dollars. Either way, that's one heck of a contingency fee.
Labels: Virginia Tech
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