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Roger Vaughan, DrPH, MS

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Roger Vaughan, DrPH, MS, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10032 (e-mail: rdv2@columbia.edu).

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With this issue of the Journal, we are pleased to introduce Statistically Speaking—a new department that provides a forum for the editor for statistics and evaluation and other invited authors to offer highlights and guidance from the world of statistics. We often take for granted the minor miracles that today’s computer power and statistical software perform for us in mere seconds—tasks that were not even possible 10 years ago. These advances, however, come with several little-understood consequences. I focus here on 3 considerations to help guide the ongoing content of this column.

First, although we have software programs that will . . . [Full Text]