BECOME A SUCCESSFUL STATISTICIAN IN A COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Statistics is perhaps one of the few professions to see steady job growth in the past 30 years or so, and the demand for statisticians continues to grow, partly because of the data science initiative. Due to the applied nature of statistics, graduate students often find themselves landing a job in a highly collaborative research environment (e.g., medicine, public health) that requires not only good training in statistics, but also a fair understanding of subject matter and, perhaps more important, the skills needed to collaborate as a team member with nonstatisticians. Most likely, these important skills are not taught in classrooms, which could potentially hinder the career growth of a statistician in such an environment.