D. in political science at Stanford University in the mid-1960s, Nie became frustrated with the computer-based statistical analysis tools available at the time.

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But Scott Zeger, the head of the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins, who performed the statistical analysis in the study, points out that clustered sampling is the rule rather than the exception in public-health studies, and that the patterns of deaths caused by epidemics are also very variable by location.

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A. in social sciences (which leads me to balk at and question Mike's true understanding of statistical research and analysis).

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Denis Campbell at the UK Progressive, has written a series of posts based on the statistical analysis of a former NSA analyst that show an inexplicable but recurrent statistical anomaly.

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The disqualifications unleashed a flood of statistical analysis about badminton that wouldn't have been out of place at a fantasy-football draft.

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In a straw man demonstration of the pitfalls in common statistical analysis, they showed that on the aggregate, women were accepted at a nearly 10% lower rate than men (35% to 44% respectively).

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