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Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. - eBook

Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. – eBook

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  • Authors: Alan Agresti, Xiao-Li Meng
  • File Size: 11 MB
  • Format: PDF
  • Length: 557 pages
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publication Date: November 2, 2012
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00AKIFPJI
  • ISBN-10: 1461436486
  • ISBN-13: 9781461436485

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About The Author

Alan Agresti

Alan Agresti

Dr. Alan Agresti is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He has been teaching statistics there for over three decades, including the development of three courses in categorical data analysis and three courses in statistical methods for social science students. He is author of over 100 refereed article and four textbooks including "Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data" and "Categorical Data Analysis."

Alan is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Science from De Montfort University in the UK. He was named "Statistician of the Year" by the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association and in Dr. Agresti was the first honoree of the Herman Callaert Leadership Award in Biostatistical Education and Dissemination awarded by the University of Limburgs, Belgium. He has held visiting positions at Boston University, London School of Economics, Harvard University, and Imperial College and has taught courses or short courses for companies and universities in about 20 countries worldwide. He has also received teaching awards from UF and an excellence in writing award from John Wiley and Sons.

Xiao-Li Meng

Statistical science as organized in formal academic departments is comparatively new. With a few exclusions, most Statistics and Biostatistics departments have been created within the past 60 years. Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S. (PDF) consists of a set of memoirs, one for every department in the U.S. created by the mid-1960s. The memoirs present key aspects of the department’s history — its founding, its growth, main people in its development, success stories (such as major research accomplishments) and the rare failure story, PhD graduates who have had a vital impact, its impact on statistical education, and a summary of where the department stands today and its vision for the future. Read here all about how departments such as at Chicago, Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford started and how they got to where they are today. The ebook should also be of attraction to scholars in the field of disciplinary history.

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