Is the statistical technique to be used well explained and appropriate?
Therefore, in designing the research experiments and writing research proposals, researchers must know just what design, data and analysis are needed to support their proposed hypotheses. With the recent advance in microcomputers and easy-to-use statistical softwares, more and more AAFRD researchers with varying degrees of statistical training are carrying out their own statistical analysis. There is a real danger of • misapplication of statistical methods by the researchers with limited statistical backgrounds and • invalid interpretation of outputs from theanalysis. Furthermore, when mathematical difficulties arise from a research experiment, or when there is some doubt as to the best experimental design to be adopted, etc., the researcher needs advice from a statistician but he/she also needs to have some understanding of statistics in order to know whether or not the statistician is solving the right problem. The last thing that both statistician and researcher want to have during
