P.Mean: Honorable mention for my R code on accrual (created 2012-01-25). News: Sign up for "The Monthly Mean," the newsletter that dares to call itself average, www.pmean.com/news.

Back in October 2011, I entered a contest sponsored by Revolution Analytics, "Applications of R in Business." I spiffed up a bit of my R code on patient accrual and submitted it with a brief explanation and some simple examples. It turns out that I was one of the five honorable mentions in this contest, which was a pleasant surprise, as I am just an amateur at programming in R.

Although I wrote the R code myself, I have to acknowledge and thank my collaborator, Byron Gajewski at the Kansas University Medical Center, who first got me interested in a Bayesian approach to patient accrual and who has provided much of the work developing the accrual model.

You can review my contest submission and the press release announcing the winners. I get a thousand dollar check for my effort, but the positive publicity for this work is just as important.

This page was written by Steve Simon and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Need more information? I have a page with general help resources. You can also browse for pages similar to this one at Accrual Problems.