TY - JOUR
AU - Zahn, Douglas A.
AB - DOUGLAS A. ZAHN* The members of this committee are due an enthusi­ Faculty supervisors meet once a week with students on astic vote of thanks from the members of the statistical larger problems to discuss the difficulties encountered. profes~ion for preparing a comprehensive report on the • At the University of California, Los Angeles, Don education of statisticians for careers in government. I Guthrie is teaching a statistical consulting course that is ~ook. forward to the report having substantial impact as enthusiastically received by the students. Of note here It stImulates contact between statisticians in govern­ are the consistently high student evaluations given to ment and academia. I will focus my comments on rec­ this course. The students appear to be very eager to ?mme?d.ation Number 6 of the report, that all programs learn this material. m statistics should include at least one course in which • At the University of Wisconsin Brian Joiner has the student is required to consult with subject-matter ~een d~veloping a consulting course using analyses of specialists. My intention is to expand on the report with five major data sets, videotaping, and extensive writing. regard to this recommendation. I will share the data I 
TI - Comment
JF - The American Statistician
DO - 10.1080/00031305.1982.10482787
DA - 1982-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/comment-N2ZbShXIfI
SP - 88
EP - 89
VL - 36
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -