Hi, I'm Sam! Welcome to my page. I work at the intersection of statistics and medicine (and humanism). Feel free to check out my blog, substack, or publications! I also list some work below.
Medical decision making / decision theory / reinforcement learning
- Language models and medical decision making (blog post), (manuscript), (substack)
- Decision analysis and big pharma (essay)
- Reflections on relative sparsity (essay)
- Decision analysis and malpractice (essay)
- The kindness of decision analysis (essay)
- Decision analysis and the real world (essay)
- The roles assigned by decision analysis (essay)
- How to use probability to describe medical decisions (essay)
- Inference for relative sparsity (preprint)
- Relative sparsity for medical decision problems (paper), (video)
Environmental health / inverse reinforcement learning
- Optimality-based reward learning with applications to toxicology (preprint)
Prediction
Radiation dose monitoring / quality control / outlier detection
- Radiation Exposure Extraction Engine (paper)
Diagnosis
- The information mismatch (preprint)
- ChatGPT and post-test probability (preprint)
- On the post-test probability of covid-19 (app), (forum discussion)
Culture
- Chat, images, and "AI" (essay)
- Bayesian and frequentist statistics (PowerPoint)
- Data science to statistics in an academic medical center (essay)
- Statistics and machine learning (forum)
- Kaggle and chance (forum)
Addiction
Teaching