Statistics and mathematics: Tension and cooperation

American Mathematical Monthly

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 615-630

  Moore, David S ^a   Cobb, George W ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034345305     PISSN: 00029890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2589117     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. George W. Cobb, Teaching statistics, in L. A. Steen (ed.), Heeding the Call for Change: Suggestions for Curricular Action, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1992, pp. 3-43.
2. George W. Cobb and David S. Moore, Mathematics, statistics, and teaching, Amer. Math. Monthly 104 (1997) 801-823.
3. Arthur P. Dempster, Nan M. Laird, and Donald B. Rubin, Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via the EM algorithm (with discussion), J. Roy. Statist. Soc. B 39 (1997) 1-38.
4. Persi Diaconis and Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic algorithms for sampling from conditional distributions, Ann. Statist. 26 (1998) 363-397.
5. Bradley Efron and Rob Tibshirani, Statistical data analysis in the computer age, Science 253 (1991) 390-395.
6. John Ewing, (ed.), Towards Excellence: Leading a Mathematics Department in the 21st Century, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1999.
7. Jerome Friedman, Data mining and statistics: what's the connection? http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~jhf/, 1997.
8. Solomon A. Garfunkel and Gail S. Young, Math Outside of Math: A Study of Mathematics Enrollments Outside of Mathematics Departments, COMAP, Lexington, MA, 1989. See also, by the same authors, Mathematics outside of mathematics departments, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (1990) 408-411.
9. Solomon A. Garfunkel and Gail S. Young, Math Outside of Math: A Study of Mathematics Enrollments Outside of Mathematics Departments, COMAP, Lexington, MA, 1989. See also, by the same authors, Mathematics outside of mathematics departments, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (1990) 408-411.
10. Solomon A. Garfunkel and Gail S. Young, The sky is falling, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1998) 256-257.
11. Clark Glymour, David Madigan, Daryl Pregibon, and Padhraic Smyth, Statistical themes and lessons for data mining, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 1 (1997) 11-28.
12. Gerry Hahn and Roger Hoerl, Key challenges for statisticians in business and industry, Technometrics 40 (1998) 195-200.
13. Roger Howe, The AMS and mathematics education: the revision of the "NCTM Standards," Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1998) 243-247.
14. Allyn Jackson, Breakthrough at Rochester: Ph.D. program restored, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1996) 562-563.
15. Allyn Jackson, Beyond Rochester: Mathematics departments come to grips with university downsizing, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (1996) 572-575.
16. Allyn Jackson, Whatever happened to Rochester? Two years later, mathematics is getting accolades, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1997) 1463-1464.
17. Robert E. Kass and Paul W. Vos, Geometrical Foundations of Asymptotic Inference, Wiley, New York, 1997.
18. Joseph Lipman, 1997 report of the Committee on the Profession, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 45 (1998) 739-740.
19. Don O. Loftsgaarden, James W. Maxwell, and Kinda M. Remick, 1999 Annual survey of the mathematical sciences, first report, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (2000) 231-243.
20. Don O. Loftsgaarden, Donald C. Rung, and Ann E. Watkins, Statistical Abstract of Undergraduate Programs in the Mathematical Sciences in the United States, 1995 CBMS Survey, MAA Reports No. 2, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1997.
21. David S. Moore, Tests of chi-squared type, in Ralph B. D'Agostino and Michael A. Stephens, (eds.), Goodness-of-Fit Techniques, Marcel Dekker, New York, 1986, pp. 63-95.
22. Mount Holyoke College, Laboratories in Mathematical Experimentation: A Bridge to Higher Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997.
23. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Curriculum and Evaluation Standards For School Mathematics, NCTM, Reston, VA, 1989.
24. National Research Council, Modern Interdisciplinary University Statistics Education, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1994.
25. National Science Foundation, Report of the Senior Assessment Panel for the International Assessment of the U.S. Mathematical Sciences, document NSF 98-95, Washington, DC, 1998.
26. Donald B. O'Shea and Harriet S. Pollatsek, Do we need prerequisites?, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (1997) 564-570.
27. Kenneth A. Ross and the President's Task Force on the NCTM Standards, Report of the MAA ARG, MAA Online, http://www.maa.org/features/maa-dnctm99.html, 1999.
28. Richard Scheaffer, Discussion of David S. Moore, New pedagogy and new content: the case of statistics, Int. Statist. Rev. 65 (1997) 156-158.