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Preparing Statisticians for Careers in Industry: Report of the ASA Section on Statistical Education Committee on Training of Statisticians for Industry

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This article is published in The American Statistician.The article was published on 1980-05-01. It has received 58 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Section (typography).

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What's Missing in Statistical Education?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that learning from experiences, by using statistical thinking in real-life situations, is an effective way to create value for a subject and build knowledge and skills at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
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Industry, Statistics in

TL;DR: The biggest growth over the next three years will be in domestic rather than industrial robots, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) World Robotics survey.
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Teaching Statistics to Engineers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on their experience teaching engineers using an approach that integrates statistics into engineering practice and present special teaching methods that help engineers understand that statistics can help them solve their problems.
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Statistical Thinking and Methods in Quality Improvement: A Look to the Future

TL;DR: The future of statistics in business and industry has been widely discussed in the literature recently as discussed by the authors, and the focus of this article narrows the focus to the future of statistic as it applies specifically to quality improvement.
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Aspects of statistical consulting not taught by academia

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the phases that precede and follow statistical analysis, including problem elicitation, data collection and, following statistical data analysis, formulation of findings, and presentation of findings and recommendations.
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Some Ideas about Teaching Design of Experiments, with 25 Examples of Experiments Conducted by Students

TL;DR: Some experiences with the use of student projects in experimental design courses at Wisconsin are described and some ideas with regard to pedagogy and theUse of simulated data are discussed.
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Statistical Consulting in Industry

TL;DR: In this paper, a central theme is that effective statistical consulting requires total involvement in the consulting situation and that good recognition flows naturally from such an approach, which is defined in operational terms.
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Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data

TL;DR: This revised edition of a highly successful guide to statistical quality control finds new information on the many advances that have taken place in numerical methods, automated process control, improved experiment design, and a new, easier way to handle analysis of means for interactions.
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Some General Remarks on Consulting in Statistics

Cuthbert Daniel
- 01 May 1969 - 
TL;DR: In this article, some general remarks on consulting in statistics are made, including a discussion of the role of statistical consulting in statistical analysis, and some general observations about the generalization of statistics.
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The Role of Projects in Statistical Education

G. K. Kanji
- 01 Mar 1979 - 
TL;DR: The art of communication is a necessary tool to a professional statistician and is believed to be as vital as the other tools of his trade, e.g. knowledge of techniques to analyse a data.