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for six years. So my background includes having been both an employer, on the side of some of our earlier speakers, and a supplier of talent, in the view of Peter Bickel.
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Phillip Ross discussed expediency versus quality. The key sometimes is that the employer wants a fast answer, even if it is just a hunch and possibly not very good.
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But statistics departments must communicate with other departments and with other research units to realize this value. Our statistics departments must do whatever is necessary to effect and preserve this communicating, using joint appointments, and so on, to nurture communication and interdisciplinary research.
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Much of that can be discovered through interdisciplinary collaborations. Concerning John Lehoczky's presentation, ~ have admired the Carnegie Mellon University graduate statistics program, and have thought that their department is probably the most successful in providing a first-rate statistics education.
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From the perspective of the general statistics department, again, the biggest step in making good curriculum decisions is that we first must make changes in our faculty selection decisions, and we need more joint appointments to facilitate all the things that we are saying. In some ways, smaller programs may find it easier to change than bigger ones because they more easily develop the unanimity that John Lehoczky said has been formed at Carnegie Mellon University.
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