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The questioning statistician
Author(s) -
Finney D. J.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780010103
Subject(s) - statistician , paragraph , relation (database) , computer science , management science , statistical analysis , data science , epistemology , engineering ethics , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , data mining , economics , engineering , world wide web
Effective statistical help to biological and medical research demands thorough involvement of the statistician. The breadth of his activities can be illustrated by considering the questions he needs to discuss with his scientific colleagues in the course of planning a comparative experiment. The paper presents and comments on 22 such questions, showing their relation to the objectives of the experiment, the utilization of resources, and the subsequent statistical analysis. A final paragraph urges that proper attention to all these points forms an integral part of an ethical approach to experimentation.