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Educating Statisticians for the 21st Century
Educating Statisticians for the 21st Century
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And what the customer needs from the statistician/probabilist is refinement of the filler. If we focus on a particular broad transect of current scientific activity, say, all the research dedicated to understanding and predicting global change, we can see that "refinement of the filter" means extending its capacity to planetary-scale systems, whether they are biological, geophysical, social, or political systems.
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In chronological order, the next on the list is Karl Friedrich Gauss, a prolific contributor to scientific research. Among his many accomplishments, this scientist-mathematician developed a basis for present-day multiple linear regression and spatial objective analysis.
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Uncertainties in all areas of global change research stem from the Emits of resolution of the information provided by global systems, whether they are geophysical, chemical, biological, or social/political. The scientific process of understanding such highly complex systems couples information from recent observations with established theory, for refinement of theory as a 29
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Highresolution analyses aimed at reducing uncertainty in the inferences of global change research, which can be achieved through refinement of the filter, require bold new work. This work must take the true spatial and time coherencies of global systems as fundamental givers, and apply the philosophy of scientific inference in the creation of new statistical analysis techniques.
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