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(First interview) You have mean, median, standard deviation, correlation. (a) If the scale was off by 5 units, which statistics would you have to recompute? (b) if you wanted to change from standard to metric, which statistics would you have to recompute?
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Biostatistician

Interviewed at Natera

3.7★
Feb 5, 2021

(First interview) You have mean, median, standard deviation, correlation. (a) If the scale was off by 5 units, which statistics would you have to recompute? (b) if you wanted to change from standard to metric, which statistics would you have to recompute?

(Second interview) What is a p-value? (a) Mathematically, how do you compute it? (b) Some journals have banned reporting p-values in articles they’ve published. Can you describe what a reasonable person’s objections might be to using p-values? (c) If you were going to present results without a p-value, what other statistical tool would you use to communicate the same thing?
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Biostatistician

Interviewed at Natera

3.7★
Feb 5, 2021

(Second interview) What is a p-value? (a) Mathematically, how do you compute it? (b) Some journals have banned reporting p-values in articles they’ve published. Can you describe what a reasonable person’s objections might be to using p-values? (c) If you were going to present results without a p-value, what other statistical tool would you use to communicate the same thing?

(Second interview) Tell me in your own words, pretending that your audience is a non-statistician, what is simple linear regression (or simple univariate regression) and what might you use it for? (a) What are the assumptions or conditions that need to be met to use this model? (b) What is the mathematical model that we are trying to fit? (c) Let’s say you have a bunch of data, like (x, y) pairs. Mathematically, how do you actually fit the model? How do you transform those x’s and y’s into a slope and intercept? (d) Let’s say that you have some data, you check all the assumptions and conditions, and everything looks good except there doesn’t seem to be normality. Can you still use the model? Or can you use parts of it and not others?
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Biostatistician

Interviewed at Natera

3.7★
Feb 5, 2021

(Second interview) Tell me in your own words, pretending that your audience is a non-statistician, what is simple linear regression (or simple univariate regression) and what might you use it for? (a) What are the assumptions or conditions that need to be met to use this model? (b) What is the mathematical model that we are trying to fit? (c) Let’s say you have a bunch of data, like (x, y) pairs. Mathematically, how do you actually fit the model? How do you transform those x’s and y’s into a slope and intercept? (d) Let’s say that you have some data, you check all the assumptions and conditions, and everything looks good except there doesn’t seem to be normality. Can you still use the model? Or can you use parts of it and not others?

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