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December 31, 2024Journal of the Epidemiology Foundation of IndiaOpen Access

Unaccounted aleatory and epistemic variations can surreptitiously spoil the validity of biostatistical models despite a good fit for the data, leading to large imprecision in clinical applications.

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Biostatistical models carry enormous underlying uncertainties that often remain unaccounted for due to lack of researcher awareness, causing models to fail in clinical applications.

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Unaccounted aleatory and epistemic variations can surreptitiously spoil the validity of biostatistical models despite a good fit for the data, leading to large imprecision in clinical applications.

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AIAbhaya Indrayan

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Individual-level use of group-derived models risks unaccounted imprecision; leaves open standardized methods for uncertainty quantification in biostatistical research.

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Abhaya Indrayan (2024) studied this question. Unaccounted aleatory and epistemic variations can surreptitiously spoil the validity of biostatistical models despite a good fit for the data, leading to large imprecision in clinical applications.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9f8f153b2b802f39268abahttps://doi.org/10.56450/jefi.2024.v2i04.009
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