What role does a statistician play in a project that requires obtaining and assessing quantitative evidence to address a research or policy question? I find that the work required in building a house can be a useful analogy for such a project . In this analogy the statistician is the painter/decorator*. Decorators make a house […]
Don’t be scared of complexity – it can provide simple answers!
A number of times, when I have been talking with people about their data, I have been told “I don’t want you to do anything complicated – I just want you to do something simple so that I can have a result, or story, that everyone can understand”. This is often said when people have […]
