Not Always a Happy Ending: Tales of Statistics Gone Wrong (2025-US-30MP-2521)

Statistics and data science are often used as problem-solving tools, whether it is to find a pattern, to understand differences between groups, or to determine which input(s) affect your output(s). While there are several tools from this discipline that should be in everyone's toolbox, sometimes a tool is used incorrectly. And sometimes, despite the careful use of these tools from statistics and data science, the problem remains unsolved. In this talk, instead of devising a solution to a novel problem, we look for the problem! We use JMP to determine where a statistical tool was not used correctly and analyze a situation where, despite our best efforts, an optimal solution was not found.