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Activity Number:
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352
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Type:
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Roundtables
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 7:00 AM to 8:15 AM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
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| Abstract - #309527 |
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Title:
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Balancing Teaching and Research: Statistics in the Health Sciences
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Author(s):
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Novie Younger*+
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Companies:
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The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
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Address:
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P O Box 25580, Miami, FL, 33102-5580,
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Keywords:
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teaching ; biostatistics ; research ; balance ; relevant examples
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Abstract:
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Collaboration with researchers in the health sciences provides for biostatistics teaching sessions that are relevant examples of applied statistics. Such didactic sessions can be highly interactive through discussion of limitations and benefits of various statistical methods. The different audiences---epidemiology, nutrition, and basic medical sciences graduate students and health workers attending short research skills courses or following degree program modules---achieve heightened awareness of the relevance of the various tools to their own career development. Adequate preparation for beneficial teaching may, however, encroach upon time and resources that should be used for research. For this coffee session, we will discuss the possible need to balance the time and resources academic statisticians devote to teaching versus research and ways to achieve this balance.
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- The address information is for the authors that have a + after their name.
- Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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