Book:
Proceedings of the sixth international conference on teaching statistics, Developing a statistically literate society
Editors:
Phillips, B.
Type:
Category:
Pages:
Online
Year:
2002
Publisher:
International Statistical Institute
URL:
http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications/1/3e4_peto.pdf
Abstract:
This paper presents some issues arising in the use of unscripted consulting projects for final year undergraduate students. The issues relate to the context and difficulty of the projects, the supervisor's role, the technical and interpersonal skills required to be developed by the student, the randomness of consulting projects, with their concomitant frustrations and messiness; and the role of such projects in the transition to work as a statistician. It is argued that such a course provides valuable experience that cannot be achieved by simulated, scripted or more closely managed programs.
The CAUSE Research Group is supported in part by a member initiative grant from the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and Data Science Education