Department of Statistics History
UW-Madison Statistics Department History
- View Department Historical Image Gallery
- Statistics Department 25 Year Conference (1984)
- Statistic Department at 50 (Amstat News article by R Johnson, Oct 2010)
- Statistics Department 50 Year Conference (2010)
- 50-Year History of the Statistics Department (2011 book chapter by N Draper, R Johnson, S Stigler, KW Tsui, B Yandell)
- History of the American Statistical Association
- Statisticians in History
Importance of the Profession of Statistics
Inaugural Address, Biddy Martin (UW-Madison, 24 Oct 2008)
"The world needs citizens who know the difference between a gene and a
chromosome, who understand and can use statistical methods, who know
the difference between correlation and causality, who not only use
computational tools and logic, but can actually develop them and direct
them to worthy ends."
Articles in News Media
- The Duke Saga (academic misconduct uncovered by statisticians): (Economist, 10 Sep 2011); Science (6 Aug 2010); Nature Med 16: 618 (2010); CBS 60 Minutes (12 Feb 2012)
- The Popularity of Statistics (NY Times, 30 Jan 2012)
- Advertising Companies Fret over a Digital Talent Gap (NY Times, 1 Nov 2011)
- For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (NY Times, 5 Aug 2009
- 5 College Majors That Can Help You Get a Job (Smart Money, 25 Aug 2009)
- Best and Worst Jobs 2010 (Wall St J, 5 Jan 2010)
- Statistics: Dream Job of the Next Decade, by Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google (video)
- Top 300 Colleges and Universities Ranked by Internet 'Brand Equity'
- Career Cast: Jobs Rated 2011: Ranking 200 Jobs From Best to Worst
Articles in Statistics Media
- Undergraduate Programs and the Future of Academic Statistics, DS Moore, ASA President
- Good News or Bad News? Academic jobs for statisticians and biostatisticians, by Keith Crank, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager (Amstat News, March 2011
- Computing in the Statistics Curricula, by Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang (The Amer Statist 64: 97-107, 2010)
- What is Statistics? by Emery N. Brown and Robert E. Kass (The Amer Statist 63: 105-110, 2009)
- Why We Need Data on Our Profession (Amstat News, 1 Aug 2009)
- Workshop Integrating Computing into the Statistics Curricula (July 2008, UC Berkeley)
- TL Moore's ASA Reports on Statistics in Liberal Arts Colleges (2003-4)
- ASA: The Case for Undergraduate Statistics, by Richard L. Scheaffer and Carl Lee (2000)
- Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics on YouTube