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Modern interdisciplinary university statistics education : proceedings of a symposium / Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, Board on Mathematical Sciences, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statistics--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Congresses.
- Statistics.
- Mathematical statistics--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Congresses.
- Mathematical statistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines how the discipline of statistics should respond to the changing environment in which statisticians work. What does the academic, industry, and government customer need? How can the content of courses and of the overall statistics educational experience be arranged to address the customer's needs? Interdisciplinary needs are described, and successful university programs in interdisciplinary statistics are detailed.
- Contents:
- MODERN INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITY STATISTICSEDUCATION
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- Opening Remarks
- Part I What the Customer Needs in Statisticians
- What Industry Needs
- ABSTRACT
- INTRODUCTION
- INTERDISCIPLINARY STATISTICS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
- WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE?
- CONCLUSION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- References
- What Academia Needs
- What the Government Needs
- A Larger Perspective
- Discussion
- Educating Statisticians for the 21st Century
- Modernizing Statistics PhD Programs
- THE FUTURE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT
- A MAJOR DILEMMA
- CMU'S PHD PROGRAM
- Year 1 (MS Program)
- Perspectives in Statistics
- Statistical Practice
- Year 2
- Years 3 and 4
- TRAINING IN TEACHING
- SUGGESTIONS AND CAUTIONS
- APPENDIX
- Examples of Statistical Practice Projects
- Examples of Advanced Data Analysis Projects
- Respondent
- Part II How-and How Not-to Implement Content and Experiences
- Some International Perspectives
- STATISTICS-THEORY VERSUS APPLICATIONS
- THE PROGRAM AT UCSB
- CONCLUDING REMARKS
- A University Statistics Program Based on Quality Principles
- VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER
- VOICE OF THE PROCESS
- CURRICULUM PRINCIPLES
- SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE CURRICULUM
- Measurement
- Variation
- Mathematical Statistics and Probability
- Analogy and Metaphor
- Model Description and Presentation
- Bias
- Sense Deception
- Design of Observational and Randomized Experiments
- PEDAGOGY
- Grades
- Mastery
- Journal
- Feedback to Instructors
- Discovery
- Group Learning
- SUMMARY
- Chance: A Course About Current Chance News
- Modernizing Graduate Programs in Statistics-Case Study
- Respondent What Is Interdisciplinary Research?
- WHAT IS INTERDISCIPLINARITY?.
- EXAMPLES OF INTERDISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES
- HOW DO WE DO INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH?
- BUILDING APPLICATIONS INTO STATISTICS COURSES
- WHAT IS MIUSE?
- HOW TO DO IT
- Appendices
- Appendix A Speakers and Session Chairs
- Appendix B Symposium Participants.
- Notes:
- Committee chairman: Jon R. Kettenring.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-19575-4
- 9786610195756
- 0-309-58638-0
- 0-585-02256-9
- OCLC:
- 42328933
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