4-8 Mar 2013 Cotonou (Benin)
Wednesday 6
Plenary conference
Prof. N. Flournoy University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
› 15:30 - 16:30 (1h)
› Amphithéatre
The Power of Designed Experiments
Nancy Flournoy  1@  
1 : University of Missouri  -  Website
Columbia, MO 65211 -  États-Unis

Statistics in developing countries tends to focus on issues arising from government requirements for enumeration and characterization of populations. In contrast, I call attention to the power of designed experiments. I follow a very simple example with a vignette of discovery. This vignette illustrates the power of employing a continual process of hypothesis development and testing. I conclude with warnings against reliance on classical randomized trials, because they can waste time and resources without adequate attention to exploration and hypothesis generation.



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