Many people - including me - have been saying this for at least 20
years. The trouble is that people have different opinions on what the
'concepts' are. Plus maths is in many ways the best way to explain some
of the concepts. And then you need to relate the maths to the
methodological issues.......
Regards,
Alan
Jerry Dallal wrote:
>
>
> FWIW, if Prof. Rubin is a voice crying in the wilderness,
> the frontier is getting pushed back a bit. At the JSM,
> more than one speaker was suggesting that a first course
> in statistics focus on concepts and ignore the mathematics.
> John Bailar is one name that comes to mind
>
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Alan McLean ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne
Tel: +61 03 9903 2102 Fax: +61 03 9903 2007
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