Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Johan Dragt 1934 – 2012

ISI Permanent Office is very sad to announce the death of Mr Johan Dragt, an ISI volunteer and originator of the ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms. We will miss Johan very much:

http://bit.ly/T4hQOE

Friday, December 7, 2012

Why Statistics is Important to You ?

Video created by SAS for celebrating the International Year of Statistics:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTBZuQR7dRc&feature=share

It does an excellent job portraying the many and varied ways that statistics impacts our lives.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Career Paths for the Applied Statistician

The world is full of exciting professional opportunities for statisticians. This article describes some popular career paths for those with training in statistics:

http://stattrak.amstat.org/2012/12/01/careerpathsstatistician/