JSM 2004 - Toronto

Abstract #300269

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Activity Number: 204
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Council of Chapters
Abstract - #300269
Title: The Collaborative Nature of Statistics as a Discipline
Author(s): Larry D. Haugh*+
Companies: University of Vermont
Address: Statistics Program, Burlington, VT, 05401-1455,
Keywords: collaboration ; statistical consulting ; multidisciplinary studies
Abstract:

Statistical methods are highly valued by others for the insights they can provide, as well as the power or efficiency they can bring to the process of learning for work, research and even recreation; and we wish even more people had that appreciation! The JSM 2004 theme is "Statistics as a Unified Discipline," and we value the commonality or similarity of the methods we statisticians use, despite the diversity of organizations that we work for and the wide range of types of data and application areas that we work with. If statistics is the discipline or science of methods for data collection, analysis, and inference, then is collaboration necessarily a core feature of statistics? Is ours a discipline that should naturally reach out to others? How do statistical consulting and collaboration differ? Are statisticians special in some way among professionals or scientists in general for the depth of their concern with such questions? A perspective on these questions will be given, based on my and others' experiences as statisticians.

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