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5. Tips to Provide an Optimal Biostatistical

Consulting Service

Conducting a research consultation is considered to be a challenging job since research is
always a dynamic activity. This involves not only teaching the research client how to
conduct a correlation test or an independent sample t-test. In many cases, it actually
involves more than that. This is because a biostatistician may, in many cases, be confronted
with a research area or statistical analysis which he/she is not familiar with. This leads to
the next section, which discusses several tips during the biostatistical consultation session.