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17 things about statistics that most managers should be vaguely familar with (31 Oct 13)

Few of us are statisticians in the real sense in the real sense of the word, yet many of us in the public sector are now expected to have a working knowledge of the subject.


You and I may extract means and modes and medians and do chi square tests and significance tests by clicking buttons on a computer rather than using a calculator, but I suspect that few of us have a real grasp of what we are doing. Like to read more or make a comment? Log in or register below



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