Do you really understand nutrition statistics and how to use them?

Dr Graham Horgan is Principal Consultant for Human Health and Nutrition, Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health at the University of Aberdeen. He will be delivering the Nutrition Society's Statistics for Nutrition Research workshop next week (Thursday 4 September).  Writing about the Statistical analysis of nutritional studies in the British Journal of Nutrition in 2001, Dr Horgan said: "Nutritional studies draw on many scientific disciplines, and one that must be prominent in any list is statistics, the science of variability. The consideration of variation is something which is inescapable in any nutritional research undertaking, whether it be experimental or observational, on human subjects or animals, or based on laboratory cultures. There is always a need to describe variation, and to draw conclusions in the presence of variation. "Many scientists find an understanding of statistics doesn't come easily, however great the need. Some of this lack of understanding is due to statistics having too often been presented as a branch of mathematics, which it is not (mathematics is one of its tools). Some of it is also due to the abstraction of the subject's central ideas, such as the need to consider not only the variation in experimental material, but also the uncertainty in sample summaries and in conclusions drawn." You can read the full article here Alternatively you can hear Dr Horgan speak in person at our Statistics for Nutrition ...
Source: The Nutrition Society - Category: Nutrition Authors: Source Type: news