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Colt's Ten Commandments for a Successful Career in Statistics

Theodore Colton, SCID, Epidemiology Department, Boston University, Talbolt Bldg. 3 East 715 Albany St., 715 Albany St., Boston, MA 02118, 617-638-5174, tcolton@bu.edu

Statisticians, as consultants to professionals in different disciplines, must grasp principles of various sciences, perform appropriate statistical analyses, and communicate results that are understandable to people with varying backgrounds and knowledge of statistics. In this presentation, we discuss 10 basic commandments that provide the basis for being a good and successful statistician.

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Lowell Reed Lecture, Spiegelman and Statistics Section Awards

The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA