Edwin D. Huff

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How reliable/repeatable is haplogroup categorization used in DNA ancestry profiles?

I just got an ancestry profile from a DNA sample and am wondering how reliable the results are. If test analyses were repeated, how consistent would haplogroup findings typically be? Does the...

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ICD 9 to ICD 10 , How hard was converting from one to the other?

Any lessons learned? Things to prepare?

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Does it make sense to report hospital metrics of surgical quality when everyone knows hospitals don't do surgery?

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How can ICD-10 coders improve their accuracy, and eventual reliability?

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What books or movies can you identify and share that have measurement themes embedded in them?

I just realized how much I enjoy books and movies that have measurement themes, and some human drama around them, like: "Money Ball" - about performance measurement in baseball, pitting expert...

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Any quick tips on getting started with R, and RStudio? Like importing data, doing descriptive statistics on data, and displaying distributions.

Please post available tutorials, resources that are accessible online.

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