A dozen deans, department heads, and statistics faculty members from China met with ASA President Sastry Pantula on May 3. The visitors included Hong Ji, Jing Ruan, and Jie Yan of Capital University; Shucai Ma of Liaoning University; Baojun Zhang and Jingyi Ma of Central University; Jingzhu Du of Inner Mongolia College; Xiaofei Zhang of Shandong University; Zhiqiang Pang of Lanzhou University; Hong Liu of Zhongnan University; Shangxiong Meng of Beijing Wuzhi University; and Yi Guo of The Ohio State University.
Jian Cao, John Sall, Jianfeng Ding, and Bryan Yan of SAS/JMP, along with several faculty members from the North Carolina State University statistics department, participated in the meeting. NC State Dean Dan Solomon welcomed the delegation and told the history of applied statistics at the university.
Pantula spoke about the ASA’s education initiatives and summarized the stated goals from a number of applied statistics programs in the United States, presenting key features of good master of applied statistics programs. Visitors also heard about the master of analytics program at NC State.
Sall hosted a welcoming dinner, at which ASA Past President Sally Morton and National Institute of Statistical Sciences Director Alan Karr spoke.
On May 4, the visitors learned about JMP software, Enterprise Miner, JMP/SAS integration, and JMP Academic Partnerships, before going for a sightseeing tour in New York.
China will invest in a number of universities, helping them develop about 20 master’s of applied statistics programs during 2011 and more in the near future.
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