Book:
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Teaching Statistics, 1982
Editors:
Grey, D. R., Holmes, P., Barnett, V., & Constable, G. M.
Type:
Category:
Volume:
II
Pages:
439-449
Year:
1983
Publisher:
Organising Committee of the First International Conference on Teaching Statistics
Place:
Sheffield
Abstract:
It is now widely recognized, if still grudgingly by some academicians and persons in older professions, that statistics is both an academic discipline and a profession. In Africa as indeed in every other continent of the world, the teaching of statistics may be conveniently put into two broad categories: the teaching of statistics as an academic discipline in schools and colleges and the training in statistics as a profession. It would therefore be convenient to treat the topic of this paper in two parts, namely: statistical education corresponding to teaching statistics as an academic discipline in institutions and statistical training for a profession.
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