Recommended web links for the month of December (2004-12-28)

This page has moved to my new website.

Note: any quotations on this page have been moved to Category: Interesting quotes.

This includes a few links recommended in late November. I hope to make this a monthly feature of my weblog.

Translation frustration: When research doesn't reach. Victoria Stagg Elliott. Published in the Nov 1, 2004 issue of AMNews. Accessed on 2004-12-28. www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/11/01/hlsa1101.htm

Introduction to the Special Issue: SpORts in the OR Classroom. Cochran JJ. Published in the September 2004 issue of INFORMS Transactions on Education. Accessed on 2004-12-28. ite.pubs.informs.org/Vol5No1/IntroCochran/index.php

Pursuing the placebo effect: What exactly is it?. Elliott VS, American Medical News. Accessed on 2004-12-13. www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2004/12/20/hlsa1220.htm

A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing [pdf]. Berger AL, Pietray SAD, Pietray VJD, IBM TJ Watson Research Center. Accessed on 2004-12-03. www.cse.msu.edu/~jchai/CSE891Spring04/MEforNLP.pdf

Ethical Issues in Biomedical Research: Diaz v. Hillsborough County Hospital Authority. Stephen F. Hanlon and Robyn S. Shapiro, American Bar Association, Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. Accessed on 2004-11-29. www.abanet.org/irr/hr/spring03/biomedicalresearch.html

FOCUS on Field Epidemiology. North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness. Accessed on 2004-11-22. www.sph.unc.edu/nccphp/focus/index.htm

Assessment Resource Tools for Improving Statistical Thinking. Garfield J. Accessed on 2004-12-24. www.gen.umn.edu/artist/