Statistical Consulting and Collaboration

3 Units

This course unifies what students have learned in their statistics, data science, and related course work to apply their knowledge in consulting and collaboration. It recognizes the fact that the essence of a statistician's and/or data scientist's profession is continuing interaction and collaboration with practitioners in the sciences, engineering, medicine, economics, etc. The course presents the views of prominent experts in the field as obtained from the literature and other sources. The responsibilities of the consultant and the client are discussed. Sample consulting and collaboration problems are presented and strategies for solving them are provided. Prereq: STAT 325 or STAT 425 .