A special issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education addresses Nolan and Temple Lang’s paper, “Computing in the Statistics Curriculum,” which was published ten years ago in The American Statistician.
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How Does Your Salary Stack Up?
The 2015–2016 academic salary survey includes both faculty and nonfaculty statisticians and biostatisticians. We received responses from 64 institutions in the United States. The data included 956 faculty and 128 nonfaculty statisticians, with gender information. The quartiles and 90th percentile for relevant categories are provided in the summary tables.
Teaching Intro Stats Students to Think with Data
With a year having passed since the release of the ASA Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science–and data science programs and courses burgeoning across the United States–Amstat News asked several educators about how they were changing their intro stats courses so students have “appropriate capacity to ‘think with data’.”
Teaching Intro Stats Students to Think with Data
With a year having passed since the release of the ASA Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Programs in Statistical Science–and data science programs and courses burgeoning across the United States–Amstat News asked several educators about how they were changing their intro stats courses so students have “appropriate capacity to ‘think with data’.”
What Is Simply Statistics?
The Amstat News staff interviews Jeff Leek, Roger Peng, and Rafa Irizarry about their blog, “Simply Statistics.”
ASA, MAA Develop Guidelines for Teaching Introductory Statistics Course
The ASA and Mathematical Association of America have developed recommended qualifications for an instructor teaching a modern introductory statistics course.