Data Science in Statistics Curricula: Preparing Students to “Think with Data”

American Statistician

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 343-353

  Hardin, J ^a   Hoerl, R ^b   Horton, Nicholas J ^c   Nolan, D ^d   Baumer, B ^e   Hall Holt, O ^f   Murrell, P ^g   Peng, R ^h   Roback, P ^f   Temple Lang, D ⁱ   Ward, M D ^j  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^c AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^f ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Big data; Computational statistics; Statistical practice; Statistics education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952778786     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: 15372731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2015.1077729     Document Type: Article

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