yes, but did it work? evaluating variational inference

This post is about the paper Yes, but Did It Work?: Evaluating Variational Inference by Yuling Yao, Aki Vehtari, Daniel Simpson, Andrew Gelman, which will appear at ICML 2018. I'm going to try to summarise/explain the paper in my own words, largely for my own benefit. I'm also going …

characterising treatment pathways at scale using the OHDSI network

This post is about the paper Characterizing treatment pathways at scale using the OHDSI network from the hefty author list: George Hripcsak, Patrick B. Ryan, Jon D. Duke, Nigam H. Shah, Rae Woong Park, Vojtech Huser, Marc A. Suchard, Martijn J. Schuemie, Frank J. DeFalco, Adler Perotte, Juan M. Banda …