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The HIV/AIDS vaccination you might have seen on the news, and the dangers of fixed statistical significance

Updated Sunday 27th September 2009 with links to further analysis. Updated again Saturday 10th October 2009 with Science Magazine’s take on the study.

You may have noticed in the news recently, some triumphant headlines concerning the “success” of an HIV vaccination trial which took place in Thailand over the last seven years. Vaccine heralds new dawn [...]

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Subversion and LyX for project writing

Ok, so a while ago I mentioned that I was going to try using a new way of working on my thesis using Subversion (a version control system predominantly used by computer programmers) and LyX (a document processor that uses LaTeX in an almost-WYSIWYG style to allow the author to focus on content alone rather [...]

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