Students’ experience of becoming a statistical consultant

Ayse Bilgin, Peter Petocz

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    Abstract

    Developments in computer software have made it easier to carry out statistical procedures, leading to a widespread use of statistical outputs in many fields. However, the need for statisticians, and statistical consultants in particular, has also increased, since the numbers and graphs that can be easily obtained from packages need to be interpreted into meaningful information. We can help statistics students to develop the required professionalism by giving them opportunities to work as statistical consultants while they are still studying: we were able to do just this in two recent offerings of a final-year ‘capstone’ unit of study. As part of their summative assessment, students wrote reflections on the process of applying their previous learning to a range of research and consulting problems. In this paper, we use these reflections to discuss students’ experience of becoming (and being) a statistical consultant.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationIASE/IAOS Satellite 2013
    Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the Joint IASE/IAOS Satellite conference, Macao, China, August 2013
    EditorsS. Forbes, B. Phillips
    Place of PublicationMacao, China
    PublisherInternational Association for Statistical Education
    Pages1-6
    Number of pages6
    Publication statusPublished - 2013
    EventInternational Association for Statistical Education Satellite Conference on Statistics Education Satellite Conference on Statistics Education for Progress - Macao, China
    Duration: 22 Aug 201324 Aug 2013

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Association for Statistical Education Satellite Conference on Statistics Education Satellite Conference on Statistics Education for Progress
    CityMacao, China
    Period22/08/1324/08/13

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