{"id":132,"date":"2008-10-13T13:37:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/10\/13\/why_bother\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T11:37:15","slug":"why_bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/10\/13\/why_bother\/","title":{"rendered":"Why bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I hope they never do to my work:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rss.org.uk\/main.asp?group=&#038;page=1321&#038;event=616&#038;month=11&#038;year=2008&#038;date=11%2F11%2F2008\">Joint RSS\/MRC\/NIHR HTA meeting on Futility Analysis in Clinical Trials<\/a><\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-size:80%\">(sorry, I can&#8217;t get the link to go to the right page)<br \/>\nAh, a quick google helps me find out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrensmercy.org\/stats\/plan\/interim.asp\">futility analysis<\/a> is a form of interim analysis, i.e. you look at the data before the experiment is finished to see if it is worth continuing.<br \/>\nI have come across experiments where that should have been done that before the start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I hope they never do to my work: Joint RSS\/MRC\/NIHR HTA meeting on Futility Analysis in Clinical Trials (sorry, I can&#8217;t get the link to go to the right page) Ah, a quick google helps me find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2008\/10\/13\/why_bother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}