Statistical Consulting Section

The room number was missing for the meet-up to continue the discussion regarding establishing a written forum devoted to statistical practice. See below for all the details. These events are also listed in the program. Hope to see you there! Robyn ... More

Dear Section members, Following up an a previous note. Thank you. I appreciate the offers of German to English translation assistance from section members. And I will be contacting the volunteers in the near future. IN particular for those who volunteered ... More

Good afternoon, all! JSM is just around the corner now. I'm looking forward to meeting you and discussing your ideas for the continued growth and health of our section. In addition to the upcoming talks and posters, we want to hear your ideas and learn ... More

" " whether certain question responses tended towards one of the extremes" . caught my eye. Given that you have a Likert scale (not uncommon in "patient reported outcomes" PROs'), if you see most responses at the highest value or the lowest value, then ... More

Great ideas, thank you! I'll look into some different displays. ------------------------------ Andrea Mack Statistician ------------------------------ More

Tom, I appreciate your response and can envision what you're describing. The graphical display you described will do a better job of showing the distribution of responses and whether certain question responses tended towards one of the extremes. ... More

Hello CNSL members! This year's ENAR theme is "ENAR is interdisciplinary." The Program Committee would really like to have diverse presenters and we encourage Invited Session Proposals for work that is important for consultants and collaborative statisticians. ... More

A forest plot would show me(di)an and confidence limits. A stacked bar chart would display all data in the colors suggested. Both may form a column next to the list of items. ------------------------------ Reinhard Vonthein Universitaet zu Luebeck ... More

Andrea, The only approach that springs to mind is to graphically display the results in a statistical control strip chart format, with control limits set at say between 1 and 2, and also between 4 and 5, on the Likert scale. For convenience ... More

Hello Section Members, I'm looking for some guidance from any of our members that are well versed in suvey analysis. An organization completed a sentiment survey of a few (16) targeted employee's feelings about core capabilities, staffing, and infrastructure ... More