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Career story: Medical Statistician
Author(s) -
Coleman Ruth
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2004.00065.x
Subject(s) - statistician , life expectancy , psychology , temperament , psychoanalysis , quality (philosophy) , medicine , philosophy , sociology , epistemology , personality , demography , population , pathology
Ruth Coleman would have liked to become a doctor or nurse, but claims she didn't have the intelligence for the first or the temperament for the second. Instead, as she tells Helen Joyce, she uses statistics to help to improve the quality of life and life expectancy of diabetics.