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Activity Number:
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408
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Type:
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Roundtables
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008 : 12:30 PM to 1:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Biopharmaceutical Section
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| Abstract - #301466 |
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Title:
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Do Statisticians Still Look at the Data?
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Author(s):
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Bret J. Musser*+
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Companies:
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Merck Research Laboratories
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Address:
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126 E Lincoln Ave, Rahway, NJ, 07065,
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Keywords:
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industry ; exploratory data analysis ; visualization ; software
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Abstract:
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Statisticians working in the pharmaceutical industry must often put in extra effort to keep in touch with the data. The complexity of new standardized data structures, the need to produce publication-ready tables, and the demise of truly interactive data analysis tools are pushing statisticians to stop looking at the data. Are today's graduates being trained to look at data in the face of these challenges?
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