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New statistical methods would let researchers deal with data in better, more robust ways

  • Written by Rand Wilcox, Professor of Statistics, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageCollecting the data comes first, but then you have to analyze the data.Cameron Neylon, CC BY

No matter the field, if a researcher is collecting data of any kind, at some point he is going to have to analyze it. And odds are he’ll turn to statistics to figure out what the data can tell him.

A wide range of disciplines – such as the social...

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