Two blog posts in the last 24 hours caught my attention. First was this post by Jeff Leek noting that there are many fields which are applied statistics by another name (and I’d add operations research to his list). The second is an excellent post on Cloudera’s blog on constructing case-control studies. It is generally excellent, but has this rather unfortunate (in my view) statement:
Analyzing a case-control study is a problem for a statistician.