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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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Often when they do I throw out my favorite statistic: 73.6% of all statistics are made up. Here are some examples: - You ask a small sample set so that data isn’t statistically significant. This type of statistical error is known as “selective bias.&#. Statistics aren’t evil.

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Pharmapace Acquired By WuXi AppTec

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Pharmapace provided biometrics services for all phases of clinical trials, regulatory submissions, and post marketing support, including clinical and statistical programming, data management, biostatistics, clinical data integration, and medical writing. The company was founded in 2013 in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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6 Keys To Implementation With New Business Passions

Startup Professionals Musings

I was most impressed with the steps he outlined for turning ideas into goals into results, which I paraphrase here for aspiring entrepreneurs: Write down your goals or your dreams. Writing something down is the first step toward moving forward and making it real. That approach is not very satisfying in the long term.

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KYTHERA Names Chief Medical Officer

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The firm said Beddingfield will lead all clinical research and development, including strategy, operations, statistics, data management, medical writing, regulatory and quality for the company. Beddingfield is a dermatologist, who was most recently at Allergan, working on that firm's Botox, Juvederm, and Latisse products.

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6 Steps For Advancing New Venture Ideas Into Results

Startup Professionals Musings

I was most impressed with the steps he outlined for turning ideas into goals into results, which I paraphrase here for aspiring entrepreneurs: Write down your goals or your dreams. Writing something down is the first step toward moving forward and making it real. That approach is not very satisfying in the long term.

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8 Tasks To Prepare You For Starting Your Own Business

Startup Professionals Musings

To keep you out of this statistic, I recommend the following steps to all aspiring business owners as they step into this new and exciting world of managing your own business: Solidify your funding plan before you start spending. Pundits in Latino countries quickly pointed out that the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.

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5 Tactics To Help You Make Good Decisions In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

While you may schedule an hour for your team to talk about the relative pros and cons of every option, you'll get much richer input if you have them each spend that hour writing up their feedback Be brutally honest about the challenges you all face. In addition, I find that most big decisions require research.

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