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Two surveys carried out in America highlight that being a statistician is a great career move.
A survey carried out by CareerCast.com reveals “The Best Jobs for Women in 2015.” Among those top 11 jobs is Statistician.
CareerCast reports that the annual median wage for statisticians (in the US) is…
This is an edited volume of 27 chapters on a broad range of topics relating to leadership, with special emphasis on women. With the growth of data science in almost every field of application, statisticians need to take a leadership role.
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto, is the Director of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. She writes:
The Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute, CANSSI (Institut canadien des sciences statistiques, INCASS), www.canssi.ca, was established in 2012 by the Statistical Society of Canada. Professor Mary Thompson of the University of Waterloo served as…
The World Statistics Day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 2010 to recognize the importance of statistics in shaping our societies. The holding of national and regional statistical days was already a tradition in more than 100 countries, but the General Assembly’s adoption of this international day…
Paul Shaman delves into the history of the Putnam Mathematics Competition, and some of its notable laureates. He writes:
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition is held annually. Undergraduates at schools in the US and Canada are eligible, and many of those who do well go on to have distinguished…