U.S. Department of Agriculture: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
November 1984
Abstract
There has been much discussion in the recent statistical literature concerning the optimal manner for a consulting statistician to operate within a larger organization. Marquardt (1979) described the "total involvement" approach, involving a statistician from conceptualization of a project to the final report; Finney (1982) discussed the questions a statistician should ask for effective consulting; and Bishop, Peterson, and Tragser (1982) argued that a statistician's most substantive contributions are made during the planning stages of a study. McCulloch et al. (1982) described a program for training statistical consultants, and Hunter (1981) discussed the roles a statistician may assume.
Comments
Published by The American Statistician, November 1984, Vol. 38, No. 4.