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Latest Articles

02
Apr
7 min read

What Everyone Else Submitted to FDA on the Bayesian Guidance

The disagreements in the comment docket tell you where Bayesian regulatory science still hasn't settled.

31
Mar
6 min read

The Grammar No One Reads: How Platform Trials Standardize Statistical Design

If you look at a single ComboMATCH substudy on ClinicalTrials.gov, you see a clinical trial. Two-stage design, 30 patients, objective response rate. It looks like any Phase II study. If you look across substudies, you see something different. You see a system. I was a statistician on two SWOG

26
Mar
6 min read

When the AI Statistician Gets It Right (and Why That's the Dangerous Part)

A few months ago, I asked an LLM to design my clinical trial. It recommended a Bayesian borrowing design for a Phase 2 single-arm oncology trial. The response was fluent, well-organized, and cited the right methods. It was also wrong—in ways that would survive a casual review. That post