You’ve probably heard the admonition: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation. Everyone agrees that correlation is not the same as causation. However, those two words...
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Author: Charlie Kufs
Charlie Kufs has been crunching numbers for over thirty-five years, first as a hydrogeologist and since the early 1990s, as a statistician. He spent the first 24 years of his career as a consultant in the private sector and the past decade as a statistician for the U.S. government. He is certified as a Six Sigma Green Belt by the American Society for Quality and has numerous publications to his credit, including the book Stats with Cats, an introduction to applied statistics.
Why is it so Hard? Do you work for a data-driven organization, or one that claims to be a data-driven organization, or one that...
Data analysis reports have to go through one more hurdle after they are completely written. They have to be approved for acceptance by a gatekeeper. The...
Perhaps the hardest part of writing a data analysis report is just getting it completed. It takes discipline and persistence to stay on track....
If you’re writing a report about statistics, you have to expect that many readers will lose interest after a while, if they even had...
You’ve been taught since high school to start with an outline. Nothing has changed with that. However, there are many possible outlines you can follow...
Every self-help article about technical writing starts by telling readers to consider their audience. Even so, probably few report writers do. In a statistical...
In every data analysis, putting the analysis and the results into a comprehensible report is the final, and for some, the biggest hurdle. The...
