The independent physical therapists who administer the ESWT or placebo treatment are informed by the statistician about the group allocation.
There is much controversy among academic statisticians about which of the many value-added calculation techniques yields the best results.
After consulting two Dutch statisticians about Simonsohn's method, the commission which included Erasmus statistician Patrick Groenen concluded that it was valid.
To reach decisions on those ballots, courts might have to hear testimony from ballot-design experts and specialists in the behavior of older voters and evidence from political statisticians about how unusual it was for Patrick J. Buchanan to get so many votes.
For example, polls used by Silver and others to make their election predictions were designed by statisticians to learn about the true proportion of voters in a state favoring one candidate over another.
For most analyses done in high-throughput biology today, bioinformaticians or statisticians require metainformation about the data for its interpretation, especially when considering experiments comparing replicates of multiple different species, genotypes, or growth conditions for cell cultures.
There is caution amongst statisticians and regulators about the use of informative priors to interpret the results of clinical trials 17, although we contend that the influence of an informative prior should not be a concern if the prior is well-founded.
The researcher could not be blinded successfully during the failure assessment, but the statistician was blinded about the groups.
Consulting a statistician for advice about the design and statistical analysis of the data before starting the research is highly recommended.
So maybe I should just keep fantasizing about you, because statisticians are the new sexy vampires, only even more pasty.
