Conveners
Education & Thinking
- Chair: Lluis Marco-Almagro (UPC Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya | BarcelonaTech)
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Prof. Ron Kenett (KPA Group and Samuel Neaman Institute, Technion, Israel), Chris Gotwalt (JMP Division, SAS, Research Triangle)15/09/2021, 14:00Education & Thinking
Computer age statistics, machine learning and, in general, data analytics is having an ubiquitous impact on industry, business and services. This data transformation requires a growing workforce which is up to the job in terms of knowledge, skills and capabilities. The deployment of analytics needs to address organizational needs, invoke proper methods, build on adequate infrastructures and...
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Magnus Pettersson15/09/2021, 14:20Education & Thinking
Accreditation of statisticians has been offered by ASA and RSS earlier, and since 2020 by FENStatS.
The purpose of accreditation is to focus on the professionality, development and quality of applied statistical work. We believe that the need for good statistics and good statisticians is increasing and an accreditation programme can provide one tool in this process.
The accreditation...
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Bernard Francq15/09/2021, 14:40Education & Thinking
In comparative statistical tests of parallel treatment groups, a new drug is commonly considered superior to the current version if the results are statistically significant. Significance is then based on confidence intervals and p-values, the reporting of which is requested by most top-level medical journals. However, in recent years there have been ongoing debates on the usefulness of these...
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