Cross Disciplinary Approach to Teaching of Statistics

摘要

Historically, the phenomenal growth of statistics as a separate discipline ofgreat ubiquity was motivated by the need to solve practical problems arising in social, biological and natural sciences. Statistical methodology as we practice today involves acquisition of data. extraction of available information and taking optimal decisions under uncertainty. That the role of statistics as the logic and science of solving problems in other disciplines and that continued advances in statistics depend strongly on research stimulated by and directed at problems in other disciplines are not fully reflected in the educational programs for statisticians at the universities. It is suggested that more emphasis should be given to the interface between statistics and other disciplines through data-centered training in statistics.