SUGGESTED READINGS

Every year, I read approximately 700 papers.

(Not to mention articles on the internet and blogs...).

This is a sample of those that I think particularly interesting. It's more of a "memoranda" (things to remember) for myself, but if you find it useful, please use it!

The papers are listed in the order that I read (or re-read) them. The gem icon (💎) denotes exactly that!


19-may-2024 Collins GS, Moons KGM, Dhiman P, Riley RD, Beam AL, Van Calster B, Ghassemi M, Liu X, Reitsma JB, van Smeden M, Boulesteix AL, Camaradou JC, Celi LA, Denaxas S, Denniston AK, Glocker B, Golub RM, Harvey H, Heinze G, Hoffman MM, Kengne AP, Lam E, Lee N, Loder EW, Maier-Hein L, Mateen BA, McCradden MD, Oakden-Rayner L, Ordish J, Parnell R, Rose S, Singh K, Wynants L, Logullo P. TRIPOD+AI statement: updated guidance for reporting clinical prediction models that use regression or machine learning methods. BMJ. 2024;385:e078378. 10.1136/bmj-2023-078378

19-may-2024 Riley RD, Snell KIE, Archer L, Ensor J, Debray TPA, van Calster B, van Smeden M, Collins GS. Evaluation of clinical prediction models (part 3): calculating the sample size required for an external validation study. BMJ. 2024;384:e074821. 10.1136/bmj-2023-074821

19-may-2024 Riley RD, Archer L, Snell KIE, Ensor J, Dhiman P, Martin GP, Bonnett LJ, Collins GS. Evaluation of clinical prediction models (part 2): how to undertake an external validation study. BMJ. 2024;384:e074820. 10.1136/bmj-2023-074820

19-may-2024 Collins GS, Dhiman P, Ma J, Schlussel MM, Archer L, Van Calster B, Harrell FE, Martin GP, Moons KGM, van Smeden M, Sperrin M, Bullock GS, Riley RD. Evaluation of clinical prediction models (part 1): from development to external validation. BMJ. 2024e074819. [10.1136/bmj-2023-074819]

19-may-2024 Carlin JB, Moreno-Betancur M. On the uses and abuses of regression models: a call for reform of statistical practice and teaching. arXiv 2023

19-may-2024 Pearl J. The seven tools of causal inference, with reflections on machine learning. Communications of the ACM. 2019;62:54-60. 10.1145/3241036

19-may-2024 Cunha BA. The Master Clinician’s Approach to Diagnostic Reasoning. Am J Med. 2017;130:5-7. [10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.07.024.]

19-may-2024 Brush JE. The science of the art of medicine. Virginia Beach VA: Brush; 2015

19-may-2024 Elstein AS. Thinking about diagnostic thinking: a 30-year perspective. Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2009;14 Suppl 1:7-18. [10.1007/s10459-009-9184-0]

19-may-2024 Bowen JL. Educational strategies to promote clinical diagnostic reasoning. New Engl J Med. 2006;355:2217-2225. 10.1056/NEJMra054782

💎 19-may-2024 Tumulty PA. What is a clinician and what does he do? New Engl J Med. 1970;283:20-24. 10.1056/NEJM197007022830105

22-aug-2023 Ma J, Dhiman P, Qi C, Bullock G, van Smeden M, Riley RD, Collins GS. Poor handling of continuous predictors in clinical prediction models using logistic regression: a systematic review. J Clin Epidemiol. 2023S0895-4356(23)00189. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.07.017

22-aug-2023 Walker AW, Hoyles L. Human microbiome myths and misconceptions. Nat Microbiol. 2023;8:1392-1396. 10.1038/s41564-023-01426-7

1-may-2023 Richardson S, Wermuth N. Remembering David Cox. Harvard Data Science Review. 2023;5(2) 10.1162/99608f92.35281d57

25-apr-2023 Taleb NN, West J. Working with Convex Responses: Antifragility from Finance to Oncology. Entropy (Basel). 2023;25:343. 10.3390/e25020343

25-apr-2023 Taffé P. Use of clinical tolerance limits for assessing agreement. Stat Methods Med Res. 2023;32:195-206. 10.1177/09622802221137743

25-apr-2023 Stanley TD, Ioannidis JPA, Maier M, Doucouliagos H, Otte WM, BartoĆĄ F. Unrestricted weighted least squares represent medical research better than random effects in 67,308 Cochrane meta-analyses. J Clin Epidemiol. 2023;157:53-58. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.004

25-apr-2023 Andaur Navarro CL, Damen JAA, van Smeden M, Takada T, Nijman SWJ, Dhiman P, Ma J, Collins GS, Bajpai R, Riley RD, Moons KGM, Hooft L. Systematic review identifies the design and methodological conduct of studies on machine learning-based prediction models. J Clin Epidemiol. 2023;154:8-22. 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.11.015

25-apr-2023 Daoud A, Dubhashi D. Statistical Modeling: The Three Cultures. Issue 51, Winter 2023. 2023;510.1162/99608f92.89f6fe66

25-apr-2023 Tsutsumi Y, Tsujimoto Y, Tajika A, Omae K, Fujii T, Onishi A, Kataoka Y, Katsura M, Noma H, Sahker E, Ostinelli EG, Furukawa TA. Proportion attributable to contextual effects in general medicine: a meta-epidemiological study based on Cochrane reviews. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2023;28:40-47. 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111861

25-apr-2023 Hartman N, Kim S, He K, Kalbfleisch JD. Pitfalls of the concordance index for survival outcomes. Stat Med. 202310.1002/sim.9717

25-apr-2023 Wang Z, Alzuabi MA, Morgan RL, Mustafa RA, Falck-Ytter Y, Dahm P, Sultan S, Murad MH. Different meta-analysis methods can change judgements about imprecision of effect estimates: a meta-epidemiological study. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2023;28:126-132. 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-112053

💎 25-apr-2023 Hiller J. Conditional Life Expectancy. The Mathematical Intelligencer. 202310.1007/s00283-023-10265-7

25-apr-2023 Lim KH, Matsuura A. Blending Mathematics Teaching with Kindness. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. 2023;13:217-231. 10.5642/jhummath.CKUH2790

19-nov-2022 Data Colada Meaningless Means

01-sep-2022 Flegal KM. A Female Career in Research. Annual Review of Nutrition. 2022;42.

13-aug-2022 Remembering Sir David Cox. 1924–2022. Significance. 2022;19:30.

02-aug-2022 Greenhalgh T, Fisman D, Cane DJ, Oliver M, Macintyre CR. Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2022bmjebm-2022. 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-111952

19-Jul-2022 Brush JE, Sherbino J, Norman GR. Diagnostic reasoning in cardiovascular medicine. BMJ. 2022;376:e064389. 10.1136/bmj-2021-064389.

13-jul-2022 Allison P. Is OLS BLUE or BUE? Posted on July 12, 2022.

07-jun-2022 Kavli H. A new translation of the Handbook Part 1 Part 2. Modern Stoicism.

01-jun-2022 Raper S. A confusion of curves. Significance. 2022;19:32-35. 10.1111/1740-9713.01652

01-jun-2022 Mayo DG, Hand D. Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice. Synthese. 2022;200:220. 10.1007/s11229-022-03692-0

💎 09-may-2022 Cox C, Fritz Z. Presenting complaint: use of language that disempowers patients. BMJ. 2022;377:e066720. 10.1136/bmj-2021-066720

💎 15-apr-2022 Pieterse AH. Dear doctor, please know that you do not know until I have told you. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2022bmjebm-2021. 10.1136/bmjebm-2021-111886

15-apr-2022 Christensen WF, Zabriskie BN. When Your Permutation Test is Doomed to Fail. The American Statistician. 20211-11. 10.1080/00031305.2021.1902856

07-apr-2022 Hanley JA, Bhatnagar S. The “Poisson” Distribution: History, Reenactments, Adaptations. The American Statistician. 20221-9. 10.1080/00031305.2022.2046159.

7-mar-2022 Sajid IM, Frost K, Paul AK. ‘Diagnostic downshift’: clinical and system consequences of extrapolating secondary care testing tactics to primary care. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2021bmjebm-2020. 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111629.

26-mar-2022 Mayo D. The AI/ML Wars: “explain” or test black box models?