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Seminário
PIPGEs - UFSCar/USP ? 11/10/2013 - 10h00
LOCAL:
Auditório
Fernão Stella de Rodrigues Germano, no bloco 6 do ICMC-USP
TÍTULO:
The Future of
Statistical Science PALESTRANTE:
Miodrag
Lovric - Professor Titular da
Universidade de Kragujevac (Sérvia) e Prof. Visitante Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, RESUMO: Despite some recent
vigorously promulgated criticisms of statistical methods - particularly
significance tests - methodological limitations, and misuses of statistics, we
are the ones still living in the golden age of statistics. Statistics plays a
vital role in collecting, summarising, analysing, and interpreting data in
almost all branches of science from supporting big bang theory to the moving of
particles at the sub-atomic level. This lecture will
reflect on the past, current and future of statistics based on the following
issues: 1.
What is
the Statistics and what Statistical Science: towards the unified definition
2.
Statistics and
mathematics, is statistics a separate discipline? 3.
The
origin of the term 'statistics' - for the first time the correct origin will be
disclosed in this lecture 4.
Some
relatively unknown but important statistical stories of success and high
appreciation of statisticians in the past 5.
The
golden age of statistics versus relatively poor public image of it in many
countries - statistics as a 'grammar of science' or 'vehicle' of modern research
6.
Reasons
for poor public perception, ways and actions to overcome this
7.
Future
of statistics education - of students, scientific workers, practical researchers
and general public 8.
Crisis
of statistics education in many developing countries 9.
Recent
harsh attacks on statistics as a discipline 10.
Controversies in
statistics, short overview 11.
Collaboration of
statisticians with other scientists 12.
Challenges and rise
of statistics in 21st century. |