Abstract #301933

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301933
Activity Number: 433
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Thursday, August 7, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
Abstract - #301933
Title: Is the Math Stat Course Obsolete?
Author(s): Bradley Efron*+ and Carl N. Morris*+ and Nancy Reid*+
Companies: Stanford University and Harvard University and University of Toronto
Address: Dept. of Statistics, Stanford, CA, 94305, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, 02138-2901, Department of Statistics, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada
Keywords: mathematical statistics ; teaching
Abstract:

This panel convenes three eminent theoreticians to discuss the question: How do changes in statistics in the past generation and anticipated changes in the 21st century impact the teaching of introductory mathematical statistics? The motivation for this panel arises from a general dissatisfaction with the standard undergraduate mathematical statistics course, a course that has changed very little in the past 40 years. Questions the panel may consider include: (1) What theoretical background is important for understanding the theory of statistics as it is practiced by research statisticians today? (2) What are the tools, techniques, and theory that support the work of today's research statisticians that we should include in the undergraduate math stat course? (3) What topics from the standard course are obsolete?

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