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Abstract #300857

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Activity Number: 191
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract - #300857
Title: Statistical (Mis)Issues in the Health Sciences: Statistical Methods May Not be the Problem
Author(s): T. Mark Beasley*+ and Sean Mulvenon
Companies: University of Alabama, Birmingham and University of Arkansas
Address: Dept. of Biostatistics RPHB 327, Birmingham, AL, 35294,
Keywords: teaching ; statistics
Abstract:

"Bad statistics live on, they take on lives of their own" (Best, 2001). The common misuse of statistical procedures in published research could, in part, be attributed to problems in the educational process. That is, the fact that researchers commonly misuse statistics is an accumulating problem due to miseducation. There are many themes that underlie this issue. They are not new. In fact, Hotelling (1940) discussed many of these same issues of statistics education even before the development of graduate programs in statistics. Therefore, the following topics are not meant to be comprehensive, novel, or exhaustive but they do focus on some key issues that have led to recent publicity over "Junk Science." Topics include: How Much of the Misuse of Statistics is Due to Our Own Malfeasance? Who Should Teach the Service Courses in Quantitative Methodology? What Can We Do as Specialists in Quantitative Methods to Improve Current Statistical Practice? What Can We Do as Statistics Educators to Improve Future Statistical Practice and Ensure that Our Students Conduct Research with Appropriate Quantitative Methods?

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