STAT8801 Resources
Communication/Meeting Skills/Explaining/General
The Ideal Consultant, Chapter 4 of The Human Side of Statistical Consulting. James Boen, Doug Zahn (1982). isbn pdf
The Completely Sufficient Statistician. Ralph O'Brien. Keynote Address for the 14th Annual Kansas State University Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture April 2002, reprinted on stattrak.amstat.org. link pdf docx
Traits of a Successful Statistician. Gerald Hahn and Necip Doganaksoyis (2012). from stattrak.amstat.org. link pdf docx
Communicating Statistics to Nonstatisticians, Kim Love, AmStat website, 1 Aug 2016. link
Email Thread from ASA Consulting List, April 2011, great example and commentary about getting all the information and answering the right question. pdf
Questions, Answers, and Statistics. Terry Speed (1986). ICOTS 2.
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History and Teaching Statistics (refers to above paper).
Deborah Nolan.
Chapter 9, of Selected Works of Terry Speed.
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The Heart of a Statistician's Career: Relationships and Interactions. Doug Zahn (2009). Amstat News, Sep 2009, 31-33. pdf
An Interview with Doug Zahn. Eric Vance (2014). The Statistical Consultant, 30(1) 4-7. link pdf
Type IV Errors: How Collaboration Can Lead to Simpler Analyses. Jonathan Stallings (2014). Amstat News, February 2014. pdf
Twenty-five Analogies for Explaining Statistical Concepts. Behar, Grima, Marco-Almagro (2013). The American Statistician, 67(1) 44-47. doi local
Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations. Greenland, et. al (2016). Eur J Epidemiol (2016) 31:337-350. doi local
From "Statistical Consulting: A Guide to Effective Communication"
by Janice Derr
excerpt on aligning
expectations
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Excerpt from "The Lady Tasting Tea" by David Salzburg, and the page from Fisher referring to the experiment. pdf
Eric Vance, materials from CSP 2017 talks
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includes the POWER process, from LISA local
Other courses:
UMN Biostats, 2014
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UMN Biostats, 2013 link
VT syllabus, 2013
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Reproducibility
Is There a Reproducbility Crisis? Monya Baker (2016). Nature 533, p452-454. doi local
False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data
Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as
Significant
Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, and Uri Simonsohn (2011).
Psychological Science 22(11) 1359-1366.
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followup
Gelman commentary link
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False, Ioannidis (2005), PLoS Medicine 2(8) e124. doi local
The Earth is Round (p<.05). Cohen, Jacob (1994). American Psychologist, 49(12) 997-1003. doi local
Editorial [banning p-values and NHSTP]. Trafimow, David, and Marks, Michael. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 37(1), 1-2. doi local
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures. Breiman, Leo (2001). Statistical Science 16(3) 199-231. doi local
Statistical Analysis and the Illusion of Objectivity. James Berger and Don Berry (1988). American Scientist, 76(2) 159-165. jstor local
Raise standards for preclinical cancer research. C. Glenn Begley & Lee M. Ellis, (2012). Nature 483, 531-533. doi local
Again, and Again, and Again... Introduction to Special Section on Data Replication and Reproducibility. Barbara R. Jasny, Gilbert Chin, Lisa Chong, Sacha Vignieri (2011). Science 02 Dec 2011, 334(6060) p1225. doi
The Trouble with Retractions. Richard Van Noorden (2001). Nature. 2011 Oct 5;478(7367):26-8. doi local
Deming, data and observational studies: A process out of control and needing fixing. S. Stanley Young and Alan Karr (2011). Significance, Sep 2011, 116-120. pdf
Odds Are, It's Wrong. Tom Siegfried (2010) Science News 177(7), pp. 26-29. doi | local | ASA response | all feedback
Graphics
Collected Examples of (Mostly Bad) Graphics and Tables
Visual Revelations, Howard Wainer: Chapter 1, How To Display Data Badly local
Visualizing Data: Challenges to Presentation of Quality Graphics -- and Solutions. Naomi Robbins. Amstat News September 2011. pdf
Infovis and Statistical Graphics: Different Goals, Different Looks. Andrew Gelman and Antony Unwin (2013). Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 22(1) 2-28. doi local excerpt responses
Choices in statistical graphics, Andrew Gelman, Presentation to New York Data Visualization Meetup, 14 Jan 2013. link local
Exploratory Data Analysis for Complex Models. Andrew Gelman (2004). Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 13(4). doi local
Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods. William S. Cleveland and Robert McGill (1984). Journal of the American Statistical Association Vol. 79, No. 387 (Sep., 1984), pp. 531-554. doi jstor local
Box, Line, and Midgap Plots: Effects of Display Characteristics on the Accuracy and Bias of Estimates of Whisker Length. William A. Stock John T. Behrens (1991). Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 16(1) 1-20. doi local
A Componential Model of Human Interaction with Graphs: VI. Cognitive Engineering of Pie Graphs. Douglas J. Gillan and Anna Burd Callahan (2000). Human Factors 42(4) 566-591. doi local
40 years of boxplots. Hadley Wickham and Lisa Stryjewski (2011). link local
Using Graphical Displays for Evaluation Data. Gary Henry (1993). Evaluation Review 17(1) 60-78. doi local
Let's Practice What We Preach: Turning Tables into Graphs. Gelman, Pasarica, Dodhia (2002). The American Statistician, 56(2), p121-130. doi local
A life in statistics: Amanda Cox (winner of ASA award for excellence in statistical reporting). Significance, October 2012. pdf
Ethics
UMN Research Ethics Initiative
article
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Older Curriculum Resources
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Compliance Courses link
ASA Guidelines link-html link-pdf my-pdf my-tex old-summary
Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for Young Statisticians Stephen B. Vardeman and Max D. Morris (2003). The American Statistician, February 2003, Vol. 57, No. 1 doi local
Principles of Professional Statistical Practice. W. Edwards Deming (1965). Annals of Mathematical Statistics 36(6) 1883-1900 jstor local
Code of Professional Conduct: A Personal View. W. Edwards Deming (1972). International Statistical Review 40(2) 215-219. jstor local
Responsible Conduct of Biomedical Research, University of Pennsylvania pdf
A Guide to Research Ethics, University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics (2003). pdf
Fostering Integrity in Research, National Academies Press link local
On Being A Scientist, A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research. National Academies Press doi local
Avoiding Plagiarism. David Birnbaum and Helena Goscilo (2009). Online resource, now not available. pdf
APA Authorship Determination Guidelines site | link | pdf
Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice: A Historical Perspective. Jonas Ellenberg (1983). The American Statistician 37(1) 1-4. jstor local
Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice: The First 60 Years and Beyond.
Shelley Hurwitz & John S. Gardenier (2012).
The American Statistician 66(2) 99-103.
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Letter to the Editor about Hurwitz/Gardenier.
Lawrence Lesser (2012).
The American Statistician 66(4) 243-244.
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Teaching Ethics in a Statistics Curriculum with a Cross-Cultural
Emphasis.
Alan Elliot, S Lynne Stokes, Jing Cao.
The American Statistican, 2017.
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Elliot Presentation from CSP 2015
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Scientists Behaving Badly. Brian C. Martinson, Melissa S. Anderson and Raymond de Vries (2005). Nautre, Vol 435, 9 June 2005, p.737-738. doi local
Ethics and Statistics: Honesty and Transparency Are Not Enough. Andrew Gelman (2017). CHANCE, 30:1, 37-39. doi local
Ethical Statistics and Statistical Ethics: Making an Interdisciplinary Module. Lawrence M. Lesser and Erik Nordenhaug (2004). Journal of Statistics Education 12(3). link local
Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research, Cases for Teaching and Assessment. Developed by Muriel J. Bebeau, et. al. (1995) pdf
Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse
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Research Ethics: An Introduction. Tom Regan (2000).
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Responsible Conduct of Research and Professional Ethics: Interactive Seminars and Mini Case Scenarios. Irving P. Herman (2016). link local
Ethical decision-making in research: Identifying all competing interests. Michael Kalichman (2002). Sci and Eng Ethics 8(1) 215-218. pdf excerpt
What is Ethics in Research & Why is it Important? by David B. Resnik, J.D., Ph.D. December 1, 2015 link notes
Authorship: why not just toss a coin? Kevin Strange (2008). Am J of Phys - Cell Physiology 295(3), C567-C575. doi local
Data confidentiality: A review of methods for statistical disclosure limitation and methods for assessing privacy. Matthews, Gregory J., and Harel, Ofer (2011). Statist. Surv. Volume 5 (2011), 1-29. doi
Willingness to Share Research Data Is Related to the Strength of the Evidence and the Quality of Reporting of Statistical Results. Wicherts, Jelte; Bakker, Marjan; Molenaar, Dylan (2011). PLOS ONE 6(11): e26828. doi local
Duke Officials Silenced Med Student Who Reported Trouble in Anil Potti's Lab. Paul Goldberg (2015). The Cancer Letter 41(1). link | pdf | video followup | Charlie comments
Ethics, Confidentiality, and Data Dissemination. Hermann Habermann, Deputy Director, US Census Bureau. link local
Animal experiments under fire for poor design. Nature 441(21/28), 28 Dec 2006. doi pdf
Writing
Duke Graduate School Scientific Writing Resource link
The Science of Scientific Writing. George Gopen, Judith Swann (1990). American Scientist Nov-Dec 1990. link local
Tips on Writing Results for a Scientific Paper. Kevin Cummins (2009). Amstat News, Sep 2009, 39-41. pdf
Recommendations for Describing Statistical Studies and Results in General Readership Science and Engineering Journals. Gardenier, J.S. Sci Eng Ethics (2012) 18: 651. doi local
From the University of Reading Statistical Services Centre:
Writing Research Protocols: A Statistical Perspective.
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Writing Up Research: A Statistical Perspective.
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Lots of other good guides there too. link to
their site
Law
Statistical Reasoning in the Legal Setting. Gastwirth, Joseph (1992). The American Statistician 46(1) 55-69. doi local
Can Statistics Tell Us What We Do Not Want to Hear? The Case of Complex Salary Structures. Gray, Mary (1993). Statistical Science 8(2) 144-158. doi local
Statistical and Legal Aspects of the Forensic Study of Illicit Drugs. Izenman, Alan Julian (2001). Statistical Science 16(1) 35-57. doi local
Damned Liars and Expert Witnesses. Meier, Paul (1986). JASA 81(394) 269-276. doi local
Paul Meier on Legal Consulting. Sandy Zabell (2013). The American Statistician, 67(1) 18-21. doi local
Suggestive Eyewitness Identification Procedures and the Supreme Court's Reliability Test in Light of Eyewitness Science: 30 Years Later. Wells, Gary, and Quinlivan, Deah (2009). Law and Human Behavior, 33(1), 1-24. doi local press release
Interesting Discussion Papers
PhD Comics: The Science News Cycle: link local
A retracted paper on GMOs:
Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant
genetically modified maize.
Seralini et.al (2012), Food and Chemical Toxicology, 50(11) 4221-4231.
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press release pdf
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Methods for Studying Coincidences. Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller (1989). JASA 84(408) 853-861. jstor local
The North Carolina Lottery Coincidence Leonard A. Stenfanski (2008). The American Statistician 62(2) 13-134. doi local
Rating Movies and the Raters Who Rate Them. Zhou, Hua, and Lange, Kenneth (2009). The American Statistician, 63(4) 297-307. doi local
Oral appliances for snoring and obstructive sleep apnea: a review. Ferguson KA, Cartwright R, Rogers R, Schmidt-Nowara W, (2006). Sleep. 29(2):244-62. doi local
Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love. Acevado, et al., (2012). Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 7(2): 145-159. doi local
Examples of JAMA structure/writing style:
Effect of estr gen therapy on gallbladder disease.
Cirillo, et al., (2005).
JAMA. 19;293(3):330-9.
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Sirolimus-eluting stent or paclitaxel-eluting stent vs balloon angioplasty
for prevention of recurrences in patients with coronary in-stent restenosis:
a randomized controlled trial.
Kastrati, et al., (2005).
JAMA. 293(2):165-71.
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Referenced in Goshawks case, by Oehlert:
Use of the Probability Integral Transformation
to Fit Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models With
Nonnormal Random Effects.
Nelson et. al (2006). Journal of Computational and
Graphical Statistics, 15:1, 39-57.
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Jobs
Navigating Work Force Trends in the Human Age. Chuck Kincaid (2012). Amstat News, March 2012, 26-27. link pdf
The World of Applied Statistics: Where Do YOU Fit In? Amstat News, March 2012, 28-31. link pdf
In the Hot Seat: Two Experienced Consultants Discuss Hiring Statisticians. Erin Tanenbaum (2010) Amstat News, July 2010, 27-31. link pdf
Adopting the Individual Strategy for Job Hunting. Terry Speed (2009). Amstat News, Sep 2009, 34-37. link pdf