Recommendation 8

Size of the total population

Population size

Number of success overall

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Standard deviation for the total population

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Let me just give you an example from a recent study that we conducted.

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And in those examples, it's important that you understand the difference between a population and a sample.

Novocure conducted its first phase three randomized trial in patients with recurrent GBM.

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The main argument against group selection has always been that, well sure, it would be nice to have a group of cooperators, but as soon as you have a group of cooperators, they're just going to get taken over by free riders, individuals that are going to exploit the hard work of the others.

Sampling error clearly depends on the size of the sample so, and, but also the degree of variance in the population.

In first order logic the models are more complex.

And we always have to deal with this whenever we engage in this process of trying to get a random and representative sample from the population.

If you have 10 patients, you might think of it as binomial distribution.

Based on this trial, in April of this year, the FDA approved Tumor Treating Fields for the treatment of patients with recurrent GBM.

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What is going on here?

We're getting random representative samples from the population to estimate those population parameters.

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We have pharmaceutical companies that are constantly trying to expand the indications, expand the number of people who are eligible for a given treatment, because that obviously helps their bottom line.

Let's say you are a t shirt manufacturer you've done is you've gone to the population that you want to sell t shirts to, and you've collected a number of examples of the height and weight of these people in your population and so, well I guess height and weight tend to be positively highlighted so maybe you end up with a data set like this, you know, with a sample or set of examples of different peoples heights and weight.

We've run a phase two trial in Switzerland on, again, recurrent patients patients who have received standard therapy and whose cancer has come back.

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So there's a 95 chance that this is true.

If we just know that the probability of success is p and the probability a failure is 1 minus p.

It's also important to know the distinction between parameter and statistic.

These will be for people with low income.

What if we had six numbers? What if it was like this?

I did that once here, and we saw that the mean was about six, right?

They'll fluctuate, right.

And, there's a standard deviation of the distribution of sample means, standard air.

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Remember from the first lecture, we often don't know the population parameters, that's why we're doing the research.

Early on its development, they did a very small trial, just under a hundred patients.

And what do you think that did to their health?