Archive for November, 2007

Is Dissertation Statistics Consulting Ethical?

Friday, November 30th, 2007

When I am asked this question, I like to respond with the following analogy. Surgeons do not usually perform their own anesthesia, because anesthesia is a highly technical and specialized field, and the surgeon would prefer to leave that to an expert. By analogy, most researchers do not perform their own statistical analyses, because statistics […]