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WalterMitty
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« on: April 17, 2014, 10:00:54 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2014, 10:33:15 AM »
Quote from: Cathcon on April 17, 2014, 10:24:18 AM
'Cause you do math, duh. Taking Statistics 1000(?) right now and it's  math, which I suck at.

you do math in economics also.

is economics also a branch of mathematics?
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2014, 10:41:42 AM »
Quote from: angus on April 17, 2014, 10:37:21 AM
You are certainly free to use your funds to endow the creation of a university in which statistics will be a stand-alone department with its own faculty and its own pedagogy.  Accrediting agencies can be somewhat conservative, though. 



http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/
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