Matteo QuartagnoSep 30, 20244 min readThe donkey and the load of marginalityAesop, Marginality Principle, Interactions and Children's Books . In the past few months / years I unfortunately found myself reading...
Matteo QuartagnoDec 10, 202011 min readOpinion (on) pollsPolls, operating characteristics, USA and evaluating success After the recent US elections, one familiar refrain occupied social media...
Matteo QuartagnoSep 22, 20201 min readANNACan you hear me? On the 16th September, little Anna came to this world, making myself and Thea the most proud and happy parents in the...
Matteo QuartagnoSep 6, 202012 min readRandomised Controlled Trials during WartimeWhy they should still be the standard. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short piece on why Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are...
Matteo QuartagnoAug 2, 20208 min readRandomised Controlled Trials in peacetimeWhy are they considered the standard? In a hospital, two leading doctors cannot agree on the value of a specific treatment. They call a...
Matteo QuartagnoMay 30, 202012 min readThe can's lidPineapples, design, league tables and clinical trials Few years ago, during my Ph.D. studies, I had the luck to be taught a statistics...
Matteo QuartagnoApr 25, 202022 min readHow to interpret COVID-19 research newsData reliability, test performance, causality and clinical trials There are those sorts of events that either are so intrinsically...
Matteo QuartagnoApr 5, 202014 min readTennis, statistics, tornadoesQuasi-Simpson, Break Points, Conversion rates and Roger Federer Tennis has always been one of my favorite sports. I played tennis...
Matteo QuartagnoMar 21, 20208 min readStatistics vs... GodPopper, Arbuthnot, human sex ratio and statistical tests. Taking decisions is the meat of life. We all know how difficult that sometimes...
Matteo QuartagnoMar 15, 20203 min readWhen The Big Thief are on FireThese New Puritans and The Big Thief, live. Last week was possibly one of the best musical weeks I've had in quite some time. Of course,...
Matteo QuartagnoMar 2, 20209 min readProbability as a gameUncertainty, Random Variables, Sport and Probability. When I was 18, I decided to study Math, thinking that it was possible to model...
Matteo QuartagnoFeb 6, 20207 min readListen to the NativesFrancis Drake, Scurvy, Drimys Winteri and Cluster Randomised Trials. OK, this is my first blog post, so let's explain how we got here: a...