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Statistical consultation — Who's the expert?

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A survey is given of requirements an expert system must satisfy to be usable in disciplines other than pure statistics. Relevant data were gathered during a three year observation of consultations between researchers and medical statisticians. It had been anticipated that a knowledge base of limited size could be established and a set of largely deterministic rules could be identified which would enable the knowledge to be harnessed as an informative and utilitarian backward chaining expert system.

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  1. Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Public Health Medicine, University of Leeds, LS2 9LN, Leeds, UK

    A. D. Clayden & M. R. Croft

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Clayden, A.D., Croft, M.R. Statistical consultation — Who's the expert?. Ann Math Artif Intell 2, 65–75 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01530997

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