# Posts from September 2022

• ### Big list of medical abbreviations

Just a big list of medical abbreviations. Note:

• These abbreviations are based on Australian (and specifically Victorian) usage. Some abbreviations have other meanings elsewhere (e.g. BSL for British Sign Language).
• The inclusion of a abbreviation here does not imply it is recommended to be used.
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• ### Custom fonts in KaTeX

KaTeX is a web-based mathematics typesetting library, similar to the erstwhile untouchable MathJax. Unfortunately, out of the box, KaTeX only supports one font, its default Computer Modern-based font, and does not have built-in functionality for customising this. Thankfully, it is not difficult to achieve… »

• ### The urea:creatinine ratio in SI units

It is said that a high urea:creatinine ratio is an indicator of a pre-renal cause of acute kidney injury [1]. This is usually discussed in United States units, where urea is measured as blood urea nitrogen (BUN) in mg/dL, and creatinine in mg/dL. The… »

• ### On the credible probability of confidence intervals

Confidence intervals are commonly misinterpreted by consumers of statistics. Hoekstra et al. [1] presented 120 psychology researchers and 442 students with ‘a fictitious scenario of a professor who conducts an experiment and reports a 95% CI for the mean that ranges from 0.1 to»

• ### Quasi-likelihood gamma regression in statsmodels for zeroes in observations

Generalised linear models with a gamma distribution and log link are frequently used to model non-negative right-skewed continuous data, such as costs [1].

For example, in statsmodels:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from scipy import stats
import statsmodels.api as sm

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