Statistics education in the disciplines and the workplace
Convenors
- Aleša Lotrič Dolinar (Slovenia)
- Irena Ograjenšek (Slovenia)
- Richard Wilson (Australia)
Abstract
Statistical practitioners facing the need to search for and/or collect, process, analyze, interpret and/or report on data as part of their job, work in many different subject areas such as humanities, social sciences, business and economics, government, law, politics and journalism. In this set of invited sessions we aim to facilitate their discussions with statistical educators as well as institutional data providers to explore ways in which effective statistical education and training can help improve statistical practice in any given subject area at any given workplace. Accountability conventions, along with values and ethical imperatives of a given discipline, resonate with this theme.
Sessions
| Session | Title | Organizer |
| 5A | Evidence-based policy making | Steve MacFeely (Ireland) |
| 5B | Evidence-based management | Irena Ograjenšek (Slovenia) |
| 5C | Statistics education beyond qualification (panel discussion) | Jennifer Freeman (United Kingdom) Ronald Wasserstein (United States) |
| 5D | Development of statistical thinking in the workplace | Shirley Coleman (United Kingdom) |
| 5E | Mentoring young statisticians in the workplace | Carol Joyce Blumberg (United States) |
| 5F | Bridging the gap between current statistical practice in the workplace and modern statistics | Jennifer Brown (New Zealand) John Maindonald (Australia) |
| 5H | In search of evidence: exploring the relationship between real workplace based data and statistics education | Sharleen Forbes (New Zealand) |