Jonathan Auerbach, a 26-year-old statistician studying for a doctorate at Columbia University, recently won a competition sponsored by the 180-year-old Royal Statistical Society of London.
William Sanders, a statistician studying Tennessee teachers with a colleague, found that a student with a weak teacher for three straight years would score, on average, 50 percentile points behind a similar student with a strong teacher for those years.
Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert says AAAS (the publisher of Science) should have top statisticians study Simonsohn's method and recommend how to use it.
The Whitehall II study team is composed of research scientists, statisticians, study coordinators, nurses, data managers, administrative assistants, and data entry staff, who make the study possible.
Contemporarily, history-inspired geographers and statisticians studied how in reality the urban concentration process took place from the eighteenth century up to the end of the second millennium.
It's at your dinner table, passed along as known fact, irrefutable evidence, attributed to unnamed scientists, statisticians, "studies". There has always been Bad Information in our society, but it moves faster now, via new technologies and a new generation of information manipulators.
Randomisation sequences, stratified by centre and age group (adolescent/adult) were prepared by an independent statistician, and study medication was packaged according to the randomisation sequences.
On the basis of those results, a statistician suggested studying the shape of the associations by modelling them as restricted cubic spline functions in model 1.
CaMos Coordinating Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec: Suzette Poliquin (national coordinator), Suzanne Godmaire (research assistant), Claudie Berger (study statistician), Lawrence Joseph (consultant statistician).
CaM os Coordinating Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec: David Goltzman (principal investigator), Alan Tenenhouse (principal investigator emeritus), Suzette Poliquin (national coordinator), Suzanne Godmaire (research assistant), Claudie Berger (study statistician), Lawrence Joseph (consultant statistician).
