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Activity Number:
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252
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Consulting
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| Abstract - #300349 |
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Title:
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Teaching Statistics in the Consulting Environment: Experiences at the University of Iowa Biostatistics Consulting Center
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Author(s):
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M. Bridget Zimmerman*+
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Companies:
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The University of Iowa
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Address:
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Dept of Biostatistics C22-E GH, Iowa City, IA, 52242-1009,
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Keywords:
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Consulting ; Teaching
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Abstract:
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The consulting environment provides opportunities to educate our clients on the important contributions of statistics in the research endeavor. About one-third of the clients served by the Biostatistics Consulting Center (BCC) are medical or graduate students, medical residents, and post-doctoral fellows working on an independent research project. For most of them, their statistical knowledge comes from one introductory statistics course that they had taken as an undergraduate or in medical school. The challenge with these interactions is how to engage the clients to think of statistics beyond the "p-value." In addition, we will also describe the role of the BCC in training biostatistics students. This talk will present examples in various areas at which teaching during the consulting process takes place.
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- Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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