why do americans (wrongly) consider statistics a field of mathematics? (user search)

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Re: why do americans (wrongly) consider statistics a field of mathematics?

« 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.

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Re: why do americans (wrongly) consider statistics a field of mathematics?

« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2014, 10:38:21 AM »

Quote from: WalterMitty 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?

Economics is the measure and study of something specific. To my limited knowledge, statistics, like basic addition and other forms of math, can be applied to all sorts of subjects.

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Re: why do americans (wrongly) consider statistics a field of mathematics?

« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2014, 11:01:18 AM »

Quote from: WalterMitty 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/

This isn't the South. We don't wave Confederate flags or separate the Statistics department from Math in general.

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