# tooluniverse-statistical-modeling

Runs statistical models on biomedical data, including natural splines, logistic regression, power calculations, and clinical trial adverse event severity tests.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 402 installs · ★ 1759
- Author: mims-harvard
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/tree/HEAD/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling

## What it does

The skill enforces a strict rule to check for pre-computed results before running analyses. It first inspects data folders for executed notebooks, existing summary tables, or canonical R scripts. Raw reruns are slow. Recalculating from raw files produces discrepancies with published outputs and consumes 5–10 times more dialogue turns.

Instead of generating ad-hoc stats code, the skill executes dedicated scripts from its bundle. For natural splines, it shells out to Rscript so calculations match R's `splines::ns()`. When handling multi-feature gene expression matrices, ANOVA is performed per gene and then summarized, preventing improper pooling across the entire matrix.

Workspace isolation is strictly enforced. The R-based scripts abort immediately if `--workdir` resolves to the input data directory or any ancestor folder. For clinical trial SDTM data, adverse event severity analysis automatically loads Latin-1 CSVs and extracts the maximum `AESEV` across all records without filtering by AEPT.

## Requirements
- Works with: Linear

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-statistical-modeling -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-statistical-modeling -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-statistical-modeling -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install mims-harvard/ToolUniverse tooluniverse-statistical-modeling
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-statistical-modeling -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --path skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add mims-harvard/ToolUniverse --skill tooluniverse-statistical-modeling -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/tree/HEAD/skills/tooluniverse-statistical-modeling/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- fit natural spline regressions and compare polynomial models
- compute odds ratios and confidence intervals with interaction terms
- calculate required sample size using Cohen's d for specified power
- evaluate clinical trial adverse event severity cohorts across SDTM datasets
- run per-gene expression ANOVA across biological groups

## Example prompts
- Calculate the required sample size from pilot.csv for power 0.8 and alpha 0.05
- Fit a natural spline model on data.csv for Area with 4 degrees of freedom
- Run a chi-square test on DM.csv and AE.csv grouped by TRTGRP for adverse event severity

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: tooluniverse-statistical-modeling
description: Statistical modeling — linear/logistic/ordinal/Poisson regression, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis, chi-square, Mann-Whitney, Cox survival, spline fits (R `ns()`), odds ratios, Cohen's d, F-statistic, p-value computation. Specializes in clinical-trial AE analysis (SDTM DM/AE), severity ordinal regression, and per-feature stat workflows.
disable-model-invocation: true
---

# Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Data Analysis

## RULE ZERO — Check for pre-computed results FIRST

Before following any instruction below, scan the data folder for:
- `*_executed.ipynb` → read with `tu run read_executed_notebook '{"data_folder":"<path>","search":"<keyword>"}'` and cite its cell outputs as the authoritative answer
- Pre-computed result files (CSV/TSV with names like `*results*`, `*deseq*`, `*enrich*`, `*stats*`, `*_simplified.csv`) → read directly and report the requested value
- Canonical analysis scripts (`analysis.R`, `run_*.py`, `find_*.R`, `*.Rmd`) → execute as-is and read the output

Only follow this skill's re-analysis recipe below if **none** of the above exist. Re-running from raw data produces different numbers than the published answer and is much slower (often 5-10× turn count).

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## PRIMARY SCRIPTS — use these FIRST

These scripts encode the question-specific gotchas in `scripts/` and emit
labelled, parseable output. Prefer them over ad-hoc statsmodels / scipy code.

| Script | When to use it |
|--------|----------------|
| `r_natural_spline_regression.py` | ANY question that mentions R syntax `lm(y ~ ns(x, df = K))`, "natural spline", or asks for spline R²/F/peak prediction CIs. Always shells out to Rscript so `splines::ns()` matches. |
| `spline_model_compare.py` | "Best-fitting model among quadratic, cubic and natural spline" / "max colony area at the optimal x". Fits all three in R, ranks by adj-R²/AIC/BIC, and reports the BEST model's peak (x*, y*) with 95% CI. |
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