SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Royal Statistical Society, Bar Chart, Crimean War
2 Mar 2013
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Applied social science, especially for health care. The cause of the passionate statistician: to save lives. It do this required knowledge of god s laws the laws of nature. God governs by his laws, but so do we when we have discovered them. If it were otherwise, we could not learn from the past for the future (essay in memoriam) Of the available information is inadequate collect your own: Consult experts on it, practitioners who use it. When writing up, consult experts (peer review) Practitioners who will actually use the data. Laws govern society as well as natural world. Quetelet: the creator of a new science in which observation and calculation are allied to bring out the immutable laws which govern phenomena apparently the most accidental of our physical life to our least actions. The role of statistics: consecrated blunders in medicine prove the need of statistics .
