Many statistics teaching groups have been founded in recent years, and doubtless more will be created in the future. In the great majority of cases at least part of the aim has been to strengthen the contribution of statistics to national development, and in some cases this has been the principal aim. How well such groups function will always depend mainly on the vision and determination of the staff involved, and on other individual matters such as the resources, human and financial, available, but there are also a number of general points that can be made, and this paper represents an attempt to discuss them systematically. It may be useful as a checklist, perhaps especially if those facing the task are relatively inexperienced, but individual circumstances are so variable that it can, of course, only be a general guide.
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