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Graduate programs in statistics

Abstract: Publisher Summary When existing graduate programs in statistics are being modified or when new programs are being created, universities need to give close attention to the nature of statisticians' work. Statisticians are students of the scientific method, and they are most valuable to employers when they are equipped with skills that permit them to function effectively as consultants on the scientific method. Each university statistics department hammer out a written list of objectives for each degree awarded. These objectives can then serve as the basis of discussion concerning the precise content of the programs to be offered. This chapter presents a proposition for shaping a graduate program in statistics that the content of a program will flow naturally from a carefully prepared list of objectives that describes what students should be capable of doing upon graduation. The objectives, which should be re-evaluated from time to time, can then serve as the basis of discussion concerning the precise content of the programs to be offered.