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Activity Number:
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652
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 5, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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The American Statistician
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| Abstract - #306176 |
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Title:
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Statistics Training in a Data-Centric World
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Author(s):
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Samad Hedayat*+ and Lisa M. LaVange*+ and Xiao-Li Meng*+ and Deborah Nolan*+ and Tommy Wright*+
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Companies:
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University of Illinois at Chicago and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley and U.S. Census Bureau
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Address:
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Dept of Math, Stat, and Comp Sc, 322 SEO (M/C 249), Chicago, IL, 60607-7045, Department of Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, 1 Oxford Street, 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA, 02138, Department of Statistics, Berkeley, CA, 94720-3860, , , ,
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Keywords:
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Statistics education ;
Undergraduate program ;
Graduate program ;
Service teaching ;
Statistical training
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Abstract:
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This data-centric world offers enormous opportunities for statisticians, but also poses formidable challenges. If we can meet the challenges successfully, then this is a great time to advance the status of our discipline with giant leaps. If we cannot accomplish this now, then when?
The purpose of this panel discussion is to focus on recent changes in statistics curricula and the need for additional changes. Some of the issues to be addressed include:
-Do we need to make changes, or are we doing just fine? -What changes in our curricula can help to attract more majors? -What changes can we make in teaching statistics to others? -What role can interdisciplinary programs play? -Do we provide our students with adequate training in computing? -We cannot just add to the curriculum; what aspects can we de-emphasize? -What are some success stories? -What are major hurdles that we face?
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