Re: job issues. stat and computer? (fwd)

2000-09-27 Thread A.J. Rossini
"BH" == Bob Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BH - Forwarded message from d.u. - Hello, I was wondering BH the job prospects for a master's degree in stat, and whether BH jobwise it is highly desirable to also do some computer BH science (e.g., programming languages, data

Re: job issues. stat and computer? (fwd)

2000-09-27 Thread Ken
--A8094A477B7DA137EC8D6CF7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would agree that once upon a time Stat MS's ended up being SAS programmers, but these days that has changed quite a bit. Pharmaceutical companies used to essentially ignore Stat

Re: job issues. stat and computer?

2000-09-27 Thread Bob Hayden
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Many of these people end up as SAS programmers. Lots of experience wtih SAS may be more valuable than abstract computer science. I did take some computer science courses while taking my stats degree. If you know the fundamentals of