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Title: Reflections on designing a statistical consulting capstone unit
Related: IASE/ISI Satellite Conference on Statistics Education and Outreach (6th : 2011) (18 - 19 August 2011 : Dublin)
Related: Proceedings of 2011 IASE Satellite Conference on statistics education and outreach
Related: http://www.conkerstatistics.co.uk/iase/proceedings.php
Publisher: International Association for Statistical Education
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Bilgin, Ayse
Author/Creator: Jersky, Brian
Author/Creator: Petocz, Peter
Author/Creator: Wood, Graham
Description: Statistical analysis is required in many different projects throughout most work areas, which makes statistical consulting both exciting and challenging. Most students majoring in statistics do not have real-life experience of statistical consulting, and so it is very important that we as educators prepare our students for the statistical consulting needs of the workforce by offering training in this important area of statistics. We have recently set out to design a final-year undergraduate capstone statistical consulting unit (course) for our students majoring in statistics at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. This unit brings together the various technical aspects of students’ studies via a problem-based approach to learning about statistical consulting. In this paper, we document our planning of a statistical consulting unit: we discuss the challenges that we faced and indicate our solutions to these challenges during the planning stages of this capstone unit.
Description: 6 page(s)
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Statistics

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/168851
Identifier: mq_res-20120518-172240
Language: eng
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