Preparing Master's Statistics Students for Success: ASA Board Approves Workgroup Recommendations

摘要

In the February issue of Amstat News, John Bailer and others described an initiative undertaken in 2012 "to develop guidelines, framed as learning outcomes, for masters degree programs in statistics and biostatistics that are responsive to the needs of stakeholders who employ such graduates." The following recommendations from that group were unanimously adopted by the ASA Board of Directors at its April 2013 meeting: 1. Graduates should have a solid foundation in statistical theory and methods.