Many of the lectures here expressed their opinion that the primary task of statistics departments is to produce truly professional statisticians. However at least a part of the statisticians must have a serious mathematical background especially in probability theory, stochastic processes and mathematical statistics. The new term stochastics is very suitable for these three disciplines. Scientists working in the field of stochastics will be called stochasticians. It is obvious that the stochasticians are educated at the mathematics departments of universities. So, the main problem is how to organize the teaching process for the students in order to produce good statisticians and stochasticians who would be able to solve problems arising in the real world as well as other purely theoretical problems.
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