Statistics has changed over the last decades from being a discipline that primarily studied ways to characterize randomness and variation to a discipline that emphasizes the importance of data in the explanation of phenomenon and in problem solving. While statisticians routinely use mathematics and computer programming languages as key tools in their work, they usually also function as an important data-driven decision maker within their application domain. Consequently, a statistician must have a genuine curiosity about the subject domain they work within, and furthermore, must have strong collaborative and communication skills in order successfully interact with the many colleagues they will encounter and rely on for information.
As the world becomes more quantitative through the data revolution, more professions and businesses depend on data and on the understanding and analyses of these data. Data are not simply numbers. Data contain information that needs to be understood and...
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Jeske, D.R., Myhre, J. (2011). Careers in Statistics. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_8
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