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...statistician's play-by-play report may have come the closest to capturing the incredible nature of the string...
...cents for each $100 of deposits -- on all insured accounts. That ploy was widely seen as a tax in everything but name. The short-lived proposal was so distasteful that it made Bush's new plan seem all the more palatable. Said Fred Dorey, a Los Angeles medical statistician: "We were going to pay for it one way or another. At least the banks have to pay some too. It's a fair deal...
...statistician. He doesn't know one pollutant from another pollutant," Spengler said. "He was of a point of view that only a statistician wasqualified to analyze this data...
Many times, the manager has to serve as statistician. Lorraine Lago '90, the manager of the women's lacrosse team, had never seen a lacrosse game in her life. "It was the first time I went away with them. We were at Cornell, and that night the coach and I spent three hours going over videos," Lago says...
...David Eddy of Duke University and several colleagues found routine mammograms in women under 50 to be of so little benefit that women may not consider the screening worth the trouble. An accompanying editorial took the findings even further. Declared Dr. John Bailar III, a physician and medical statistician at McGill University in Montreal: "The evidence . . . does not demonstrate any clear health benefit from mammographic screening for breast cancer in women younger than 50 years . . . Routine screening of this age group should be discontinued...