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Activity Number:
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291
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Council of Chapters
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| Abstract - #303010 |
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Title:
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Biostatistics' Rise as an Empirical Science: Genomic Research as the Leavening Agent
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Author(s):
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David B. Allison*+
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Companies:
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Address:
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1665 University Boulevard, RPHB 327, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0022,
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Abstract:
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Biostatistics is assuredly a theoretical-mathematical science, yet it is also an empirical science in ways that go beyond applications. We learn about statistical methods themselves in part via empirical research. Though use of empirical data and inductive reasoning in methodological research goes back at least 100 years to Student's introduction of the t-distribution, advances in data magnitude, data availability, and methodological complexity in genomic science are driving a marked increase in statistics as an empirical science. I will describe how methodological research can be empirical research in ways beyond conventional computer simulations, illustrate with specific methodology research in the genomic context, and suggest that our field begin nurturing this approach by elucidating conceptual foundations and validity conditions and by providing enhanced data for such purposes.
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