Snedecor Lecture II
| Date/Time: | Tuesday, 13 Oct 2015 from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm |
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| Location: | 0171 Durham |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | www.stat.iastate.edu |
| Contact: | Jeanette La Grange |
| Phone: | 515-294-3440 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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A key measure of the maturity and quality of a scientific community is how it judges and values accomplishments and (or versus) scholarship. To address this question, I will describe the motivation or drive for accomplishments and/or scholarship at three levels: inspiration, aspiration, ambition. They represent different (but not necessarily exclusive) mindsets or modi operandi. I will use several prominent examples in statistics history to explain or illustrate the acts of inspiration, aspiration, and ambition. They include: Pearson's arguments with Fisher and with Yule, some breakthrough work of Fisher, Neyman, Tukey, Box, Efron, etc. Then I will share some thoughts on what are good or bad mathematical statistics work. Throughout this talk, I will use the "lens" of inspiration, aspiration, and ambition in making my examinations, remarks and suggestions.
*(Jointly sponsored by Presidential Distinguished Scholar Seminar Fund, Department of IMSE and Department of Statistics)