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What Academia Needs
Pages 10-13

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... But it exists at every such interface, which I propose to be both necessary and sufficient for an activity to be properly called statistics. It has a special and proscribed function whenever and wherever empirical data are treated; in scientific research of any kind; in government, commerce, industry, and agriculture; in medicine, education, sports, and insurance; and so on for every human activity and every discipline.
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From page 11...
... The issues that arose involved questions of molecular biology, forensic science, population genetics, statistics, and the law- as interdisciplinary as you can get. It seemed to me of critical importance for the ultimate goal, good public policy, that the participants keep in mind the relative Importance of the concerns of their fields and the interplay of these with the concerns of the other fields in the final outcome.
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From page 12...
... We have a long-standing student consulting service that attracts graduate students and some faculty from many fields, particularly the biological and social sciences. These consultations sometimes result in longer-range interdisciplinary collaborations.
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From page 13...
... More mechanisms for facilitating interdisciplinary contacts of students and faculty can be constructed, and more are developing for instance, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. To some extent, ~ find myself in the position of the comical Polish colonel in a movie some of you may remember, "Me and the Colonel." In this film the colonel and lacobowsky (Danny Kaye)
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