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This paper is from Session 3C: Mentoring of graduate students

which comes under Topic 3: Statistics education at the post-secondary level             Full topic list

(Thursday 6th, 16:00-18:00)

Mentoring graduate students in apprenticeship positions as research assistants: the experience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Presenter

• Shrikant Bangdiwala (United States)

Abstract

Graduate training programs in applied statistics are the formal method to provide future professionals with the necessary theoretical and methodological tools for a successful career as a statistician. Mentoring is considered as another form of education at the post secondary level, and should complement the formal coursework with individualized hands-on experiences with real world problems in addition to providing students with career counseling. This manuscript describes the mentoring process at the Department of Biostatistics of the School of Public Health of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.