The system suffers from "high turnover, inadequately trained personnel, bad data--you name it, " McLellan says.
But bad data are not the only thing that can ruin a drug's prospects.
Researchers hope the sheer volume of participants will wash out the effect of bad data.
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If reputable scientists are basing their opinions on bad data then maybe we need a different peer-review process.
We excuse him because he was able to identify bad data and it turned out he was right (mostly).
Contributing to that sentiment was a lot of bad data in the U.S. last week, says NPR's Adam Davidson.
Bad data on AstraZeneca's Iressa casts a pall over OSI's own development effort.
Update: Megan McArdle has pointed out that the infograph I used to find information on hours-per-week worked has bad data.
More often, the cause is bad data: wrong age, wrong number of years of service, wrong salary information and so on.
" If anything, he said at a recent industry conference, "when you get all the data in one place, you discover what's wrong, where the bad data is.
Mortgage applications complete the set of bad data, with the seasonally adjusted number down 14.4% from a week ago and 2.8% in terms of its 4-week moving average.
Therefore, the more time analysts were able to craft reports, create presentations, and give insights to clients rather than correcting bad data, the more successful the Systems Operations team.
Outside the U.S., the data's not so good, so that if you use bad data, garbage in, garbage out, you'll have some of the outliers coming to the top.
While the apocalyptic view that we face an imminent inflationary depression may be reading too much into the tea leaves, relying on bad data is like flying blind in a storm.
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Instead of remediating bad data, businesses, government agencies and research institutions need to create an information architecture that allows them to follow their data as it moves among different users in their organizations.
"In Europe, it's all about the rate of change we're going from horrible data to not-so-bad data, and the market will rally off that, " said Andres Garcia-Amaya, global market strategist at the mutual-fund arm of J.
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It is true that bad economic data is putting a dour mood on stock investors.
On another dismal day for U.S. equities, a combination of bad economic data and riots in debt-ridden Greece have sent markets on a nose dive, as they approach a seventh consecutive week of declines.
The U.S. dollar index is sharply higher Thursday and hit a fresh five-week high overnight, on perceived safe-haven demand and as the Euro currency sinks on the bad economic data issued for the EU Thursday.
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There has been some perceived safe-haven demand for the greenback as the Euro currency has sunk on the bad economic data issued for the EU late this week, and on the worries about a currency war.
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Bad judgment and shoddy data-processing and programming led more money to go astray.
And those questions need to include details on how they propose to make sure nothing bad happens to your data.
Luigi Speranza, an economist at BNP Paribas, called the data "bad news" and went on to say that "future consumer demand is at risk".
Late last month, the Federal Trade Commission released a report on the growing business of buying bad debt, using data from the largest buyers.
In an interview, Jeffrey Drazen, the NEJM editor in chief, said that picking a method of analysis after seeing the data is bad scientific form.
The password was supposed to be our friend, protecting precious data from the bad guys.
It is within these that gaps of trust among different systems that could allow bad actors access to sensitive data without proper authentication.
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