Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium

 Title: Exaggerating Data Speaker: Jack KalbfleischProfessor and ChairDepartment of BiostatisticsUniversity of Michigan Abstract: We will look at a number of examples where the way in which the data arise is biased so that care must be exercised in drawing conclusions. These examples include the famous bus paradox of Feller and some more practical situations which arise, for example, in the analysis of early detection programs for disease, or in the analysis of data on patient survival in studies of organ transplants. Some elementary statistical aspects will be considered and developed with a view to finding ways to carry out a correct analysis of the data. Location: Palenske 227 Date: 11/9/2006 Time: 3:10 PM

@abstract{MCS:Colloquium:JackKalbfleischProfessorandChairDepartmentofBiostatisticsUniversityofMichigan:2006:11:9,
author  = "{Jack KalbfleischProfessor and ChairDepartment of BiostatisticsUniversity of Michigan}",
title   = "{Exaggerating Data}",
address = "{Albion College Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium}",
month   = "{9 November}",
year    = "{2006}"
}