An afternoon with ITT (and rabbits)

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This afternoon, instead of going to the office, I went to a place downtown to listen to a talk by a Stanford researcher, Booil Jo, on "Model choices in intention to treat analysis: Randomized trials with intervention non-attendance and non-response." They hadn't let me know that they'd changed the start time from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., so I ended up spending a bunch of time in the new books section of the library, reading half a book about letting rabbits live cage-free in one's house. The talk was interesting enough; there were only seven of us in the audience (and one teleconferencer in Portland). I was pleased (and relieved) to be able to follow what she was saying, since it was cutting-edge applied statistics. When I emerged from the building, clouds had come in and the temperature had dropped a bit, and now it's raining some, big fat drops of summer rain.