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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Intrepret/describe

Hi.
What's the difference between interpret&describe in:
"[Statistics is] The theory and methodology for study design and for describing, analyzing, and interpreting data generated from such studies."?

Thanks in advance!
  

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Soheil, this is an odd sentence. Have you transcribed it correctly? Would you mind showing where it came from?

— JohnParis

  • Soheil, this is an odd sentence.
  • Have you transcribed it correctly?
  • Would you mind showing where it came from?
  • Thanks in advance, John
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Soheil, this is an odd sentence. Have you transcribed it correctly? Would you mind showing where it came from?
Thanks in advance, John
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Thank you.I just copy&pasted it(and made it into one line) from a powerpoint slide of:
"
Introduction to Medical Statistics
John J. Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in Biostatistics
Stony Brook University School of Medicine
Lecture 1
Biostatistics for Fellows and Residents of
GCRC & Surgery Dept.
December 1, 2004"

Again just copy&paste.
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By "study design," he meant "designing studies."
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OK - I see. Thanks.
Since it is a PowerPoint presentation, it's hard to tell what the professor is truly saying. I would suggest that the best way to differentiate between the two words is to take them literally as they appear in your dictionary.
If you Google "definition of statistics", you'll see that the sentence is not a definition of statistics per se. I have the feeling that it is mo
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