The Gray Intellectual

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Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President of the Institute of Medicine, gives the 2011 Frank A. Calderone Prize Lecture at the Paley Center for Media ...

Oona A. Hathaway, Yale Professor of International Law gives the Timbers '37 Lecture addressing a crisis of accountability and legitimacy in interna...

Courtney Brown describing why students should learn the R programming language. R is FREE, easy to use, and open source. It is often used to do sta...

Contango and backwardation are about the relationship between the spot and forward price. If Forward is greater than Spot, it's contango (upward sl...

Why would the prices differ? The key difference is the daily settlement of the futures contract. The investor in a futures contract must maintain a...

The cost of carry model is universally helpful. It summarizes the link between the spot price and the (theoretical) futures price for a commodity.

The basis is the difference between the spot and futures price. Basis risk attaches to all derivatives.

Brief illustration of a fixed-for-fixed currency swap (e.g., dollars for euros). Please note: in a plain vanilla interest rate swap, we referred to...

Return on Sales (income statement) and Return on Invesmtent (returns to balance sheet).

Using a simple zero-coupon bond, I illustrate bond duration. We have a few variations, including weighted average time to cash flow, but the best w...

Since the Affordable Care Act was passed, numerous lawsuits have been filed arguing that the federal mandate that individuals obtain health insuran...

Event held 3.8.11. Controversial new evidence suggests that mammography screening for women in high-income nations may have diminishing value in li...

Stopping time, hitting time and other times.

How to check that a Joint Probability Density Function is a valid one.

El Centro de Investigación en Economía y Salud (CRES) es un centro interdisciplinario de referencia para la investigación y la formación en gestión...

This WFH video podcast features a conversation about Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). Hosting the d...

William Shaffner of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine sees multiple problems with the AI...

The iQuit program offers financial incentives to Connecticut Medicaid recipients to help them quit smoking. The state-run program was designed in c...

This is life, when one is able to do more than addition and subtraction.

A discussion of statistical evidence and why you might not get results significant enough to reject your null hypothesis even if your alternative h...

A conversation between a clinical researcher and a statistician about the meaning of a p-value (this is loosley based on the beginning of an articl...

The chances of publishing a manuscript. Researcher and editor having a civil discussion.

Two students talking about the importance of knowing about the independence assumption.

Courtney Brown, Ph.D., is a mathematician and social scientist working at Emory University. This entertaining video describes his advice to undergr...

Professor Michael Drummond presents a seminar at the Centre for Health Economics, Monash University on Wed 28th Sept 2011.

"Can we reliably benchma...

The USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics hosted a conference Oct. 22, 2010, titled, "Health Reform and the Economy: Are They Good f...

The iQuit program offers financial incentives to Connecticut Medicaid recipients to help them quit smoking. The state-run program was designed in c...

With the failure of the so-called Congressional "supercommittee" to agree on recommendations for cutting more than $1 trillion from federal governm...

Amid controversy, a cadre of experts met in February at the World Health Organization to debate the publication of experiments that made a deadly f...