But statisticians would probably caution against finding a strong trend, because the variation between months is not wide and because links between seasonal timing and possible causes are not clear.
This approach, however, was approved by the National Quality Forum and an independent committee of statisticians to reduce the likelihood of finding spurious results based on small sample volumes at certain hospitals.
Medical statisticians use it to estimate the likelihood of finding matches within pools of potential transplant donors and recipients on such characteristics as blood type, Rh factors and other immunological markers.
At this point France's aviation accident investigation authority, BEA, made a call to a group of statisticians in the US who had expertise in finding objects lost at sea.
Before I was tragically thrust into the world of food safety, I was a master's level statistician and had spent my career working in clinical research finding new treatments for schizophrenia, high cholesterol and other health issues.
Dominique Labbé, the statistician responsible for this latest tussle over the authorship of canonical works, came to his conclusion after finding that certain works by Molière and Corneille share 75percentt of their vocabulary.
Scottish government statisticians have disputed the findings by two academics at the University of Glasgow, John McLaren and Jo Armstrong, that the actual wealth is as low as $5,000 by looking at the gross national income (GNI), which assesses the money kept inside a country rather than GDP.
Iain Bell, the MoJ's chief statistician, said the findings were not conclusive on whether the deterrent effect of longer prison sentences was more effective at reducing reoffending.
MEL the first author led the study design, oversaw data collection, analysed data on a regular basis, worked with the study statistician to interpret findings, and organized the drafts of this article.
So I wondered is this just a play of numbers by statisticians or a genuine scientific finding.
