The Face-off between Statisticians and Domain Experts during consultancy and collaboration
Conference
64th ISI World Statistics Congress - Ottawa, Canada
Format: IPS Abstract
Keywords: collaboration, consultancy, domain-expert, research, statisticians
Session: IPS 144 - Statistical Collaboration with Domain Expert
Thursday 20 July 2 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. (Canada/Eastern)
Abstract
Most of the statistically rich and well analyzed research works are products of collaboration and consultancy between domain experts and statisticians. However, the work relationship between these two experts are not always rosy and pleasant. Sometimes, there are several arguments, opinions and counter-opinions, persuasions during interactive sessions before arriving at a conclusion regarding decisions to be made to improve research outputs. Some of such experiences are discussed in this article.