Fragmented
In the process of planning the syllabus for my next PhD course on “Scientific Data-Collection”, to be offered for the third time in Spring 2009, I have realized how fragmented the education of statisticians is, especially when considering the applied courses. The applied part of a typical degree in statistics will include a course in Design of Experiments, one on Surveys and Sampling, one on Computing with the latest statistical software (currently R), perhaps a Quality Control, and of course the usual Regression, Multivariate Analysis and other modeling courses. Because there is usually very little overlap between the courses (perhaps … Continue reading Fragmented