QUERY: Statistician:Scientist ratio in NR research
Hi Allstaters,
At the end of July I broadcast the following message. It is easy to
summarise the replies - there was only one, giving an actual, not
ideal, ratio of 1 to 400-500!
Hans
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July's email was:
I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on the approximate optimal ratio of
biometricians or statisticians to other scientists in institutes
undertaking natural resources research (agriculture, forestry,
fisheries, etc, where biological variation is omnipresent)?
Example institutes are IACR in England (arable crops), parts of CSIRO
in Australia, state agriculture and forestry organisations in the US,
Bangladesh's BARI, PNG's commodity research institutes, etc. Many have
geographically dispersed research centres. Are there any that
approximate an ideal ratio?
Better still, any references of any sort in print to buttress arguments
for improving it from 0.5:200? To?
Replies to [log in to unmask], summarized as usual.
Hans Hockey
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