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John Concato

Researcher at Yale University

Publications -  251
Citations -  30777

John Concato is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Prostate cancer. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 241 publications receiving 26637 citations. Previous affiliations of John Concato include Boston University & Veterans Health Administration.

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'Race' and prostate cancer mortality in equal-access healthcare systems.

TL;DR: Mortality among black and white patients with prostate cancer is similar in equal-access healthcare systems, and studies that find racial differences in mortality may not account fully for socioeconomic and clinical factors.
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The Quest for “Power”: Contradictory Hypotheses and Inflated Sample Sizes☆

TL;DR: To have the "power" of avoiding undersized clinical trials, the customary statistical strategy used in the past few decades is aimed at rejecting both a null stochastic hypothesis and a contradictory alternative hypothesis.
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P values: from suggestion to superstition.

TL;DR: The p value is defined, the historical origins of the p value approach to hypothesis testing are summarized, various applications of p≤0.05 in the context of clinical research are described, and the emergence of p=10−8 and other values as thresholds for genomic statistical analyses are discussed.
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Two measures of insulin sensitivity provided similar information in a U.S. population.

TL;DR: The range of observed values of the HOMA and FPI in a large sample of the U.S. population is described to describe the spectrum of insulin sensitivity and may be useful in helping physicians develop a clinical understanding of the dynamic range of both FPI and HomA measures.