What is the question?

2015/02/27 by Jeffrey T. Leek, Roger D. Peng · 1 voice
Medicine · #Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

paper · doi:10.1126/science.aaa6146

openalex publication_date 2015/02/27 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

Mistaking the type of question being considered is the most common error in data analysis

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