Training Researchers in the Use of Statistics, Tokyo, Japan 2000

Conference Information

• Front Matter
  Edited by Carmen Batanero

Training researchers in particular statistical topics

• Bayesian models and world constructs
  Gudmund Iversen
• Discussion
  Theodore Chadjipadelis
• Discussion
  S. P. Mukherjee
• Discussion
  Martha B. Aliaga
• Empirical research on the understanding of association and implications for the training of researchers
  Antonio Estepa and Francisco T. Sánchez-Cobo
• How much can be taught about stochastic processes and to whom?
  Ann-Lee Wang
• Important considerations for the optimal communication between statisticians and medical researchers in consulting, teaching and collaborative research, with a focus on the analysis of ordered categorical data
  Elisabeth Svensson
• Statistical training of the researchers in total quality management: The Japanese experience
  Chihiro Hirotsu
• Statistics on the catwalk. The importance of models in training researchers in statistics
  Alan McLean

How technology affects the training of researchers

• Design of an Internet course for training medical researchers in Bayesian statistical methods
  Dalene Stangl
• Discussion: How technology affects the training of researchers
  Kensei Araya
• Practical and educational problems in sharing official micro data with researchers
  Sandra McDonald
• Precaution against errors in using stochastic software
  Toshiro Shimada
• Teaching biostatistics for medical personnel with computer based supplement
  Tae Rim Lee
• The impact of the Internet on researchers' training
  Gianfranco Galmacci

Needs and problems in training researchers in specific areas

• A hands-on interactive method of teaching statistics to agricultural researchers
  David J. Saville
• Discussion
  Brian Phillips
• Discussion. Research skills: A closely connected triplet of research area, research methodology and statistics
  Gilberte Schuyten
• Meeting the statistical needs of researchers in the biological and health sciences
  John A. Harraway, Bryan Manly, Hilary Sutherland and Allan McRae
• Statistical thinking for novice researchers in the biological sciences
  Glenys Bishop and Mike Talbot
• The role of a research resource centre in the training of social science researchers
  Michael Glencross and Andjile Mji
• Training Regular Education and Special Education teachers in the use of research methodology and statistics
  Carol Joyce Blumberg

International experiences in the training of researchers

• Discussion
  M. Gabriella Ottaviani
• How to overcome the gap between the available statistical methods and their effective use by researchers in social sciences. A few thoughts about the experience in the PRESTA Programme
  Eduardo Crivisqui, Stefano Abruzzini and Carlos Marcos Batista
• Statistical research and consulting in universities from developing countries: The Colombian case
  David Ospina and Jorge Ortiz
• The training of researchers in the use of statistics in China
  Yuan Wei
• Training of statisticians and clinical researchers worldwide to collaborate as co-investigators within country clinical epidemiology units: The experience of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network (INCLEN)
  Shrikant I. Bangdiwala and Sergio Muñoz

Consultation as a teaching and learning process

• Discussion
  Yuki Miura
• How to think about statistical consultation. Learning from data
  Ben-Chang Shia
• Learning from experience
  Flavia Jolliffe
• The statistical consultancy workshop as a pedagogical tool
  Juan D. Godino, Carmen Batanero and Ramón Gutiérrez Jáimez
• The teaching/ learning process in university statistical consulting labs in the United States
  Gabriella Belli

Looking Forward

• Main research problems in the training of researchers
  Carmen Batanero