Modern Interdisciplinary University Statistics Education Proceedings of a Symposium (1994) / Chapter Skim
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For instance, in Sweden, the industrial engineering department sent their engineers to the mathematics department for a course that taught on reliability, quality control, Taguchi methods, and so on. Based on a limited sample, my general conclusion is that there is no detectable "international" (as opposed to the "intranational")
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Yet often they are taught by people whose qualifications to do real statistics may be superior to those of people in the mathematics department or even in the statistics department, and the challenge that statisticians face on campus is how to draw those people into interaction with the students whom we want to learn statistics in a way that is not in competition with the elementary course. Rather, a distinction needs to be made between those people who are doing quality statistical analysis wherever they are based, and those people who are perhaps not qualified to do that kind of statistics instruction.
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GRAY: Going back to the original question that started this line of discussion, if you have people teaching statistics courses in other departments, one practical suggestion is to invite them to teach some sections of the courses in your department. American University has a regulation that all the elementary statistics for undergraduates must be taught In the mathematics department, but people from psychology or economics are brought in to teach sections of the course because there are many, many sections of it.
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To some extent, what happens to the statistics department, the mathematics department, or any other academic department is based on the reward system. The particular direction that statistics takes, the courses that are offered, and which are emphasized is largely a matter of how we are rewarded by the university.
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That is a perspective ~ do not think ~ have heard in any of the comments about how to incorporate, for lack of a better word, the expert knowledge of people into the statistical analysis. TUCKER: That situation is addressed in the 1992 CATS report entitled Combining Information that was originally published by National Academy Press, and that the American Statistical Association has just republished as Volume 1 of ASA's new Contemporary Statistics series.
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