A Researcher Is Attempting to Decide Whether to Hire a Statistician

A researcher is attempting to decide whether to hire a statistician to assist with the statistical aspects of the study. If the researcher cannot perform all of the following for a quantitative study, why should a statistician be contacted?

A) Provide sample demographics using descriptive statistics.
B) Perform reliability testing of the study instruments.
C) Design and perform analyses to answer research questions and test hypotheses.
D) Design and perform an exploratory analysis of the data.
E) Hand-compute all statistical calculations.
F) Prepare the data for analysis.
G) Perform a power analysis.
H) Interpret the results obtained by all statistical computations.