tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775513617406888811.post2478530072731576700..comments2023-07-10T03:59:11.612-04:00Comments on Math Horizon's Aftermath: Statistics à la ModeMathematical Association of Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10559021045290192742noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775513617406888811.post-44626418754216268462012-02-05T09:55:45.248-05:002012-02-05T09:55:45.248-05:00Not since the invasion of Iraq has someone had a m...Not since the invasion of Iraq has someone had a more mistaken premise. Statistics is not now, nor has it ever been, a branch of mathematics. I shudder to think of how many prospective statisticians have been turned off by this instructor's approach.<br /><br />Frank Harrell<br />Chairman, Dept. of Biostatistics<br />Vanderbilt UniversityFrank Harrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15263496257600444093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775513617406888811.post-55926613318321435812012-01-24T10:00:54.574-05:002012-01-24T10:00:54.574-05:00See http://community.amstat.org/AMSTAT/Blogs/BlogV...See http://community.amstat.org/AMSTAT/Blogs/BlogViewer/?BlogKey=784e55b4-cb6c-499a-a2da-391e548d36b2.Emil Friedmanhttp://www.statisticalconsulting.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775513617406888811.post-88511370836863543122012-01-18T17:40:30.456-05:002012-01-18T17:40:30.456-05:00The best explanation I've seen of the differen...The best explanation I've seen of the difference between statistics and mathematics was given by the famous statistician George Box in Technometics (1990). He wrote, <br /><br />"Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics.... Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental."Jim Higginshttp://www.k-state.edu/statsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775513617406888811.post-58090153504056203772012-01-18T16:24:55.053-05:002012-01-18T16:24:55.053-05:00I hated stats courses until I finally took one tha...I hated stats courses until I finally took one that contained math. Before that it felt like a confusing cookbook of ideas to memorize - extremely boring. After finally running into graduate stats courses (with math) I switched from studying graduate level math to stats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7775513617406888811.post-65298601955154378862012-01-18T16:22:25.270-05:002012-01-18T16:22:25.270-05:00http://community.amstat.org/AMSTAT/Blogs/BlogViewe...http://community.amstat.org/AMSTAT/Blogs/BlogViewer/?BlogKey=784e55b4-cb6c-499a-a2da-391e548d36b2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com