In our Briefing this week, we take a look at the role of statistics and analytics in war, from WWII to the present. Our curriculum spotlight is on our Rasch and IRT Mastery – key skills for those involved in designing, developing, and analyzing tests and surveys. You can start with Oct 9 – NovContinue reading “Sept 30: Statistics in Practice”
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Historical Spotlight: John Tukey
The statistician John Tukey is regarded by some as the father, or at least one of the fathers, of data science. Before Tukey, statistics meant inference (p-values, ANOVA, etc.) and models. Tukey brought to the discipline a whole new perspective: exploring the data to see what it is telling us. He coined the term “dataContinue reading “Historical Spotlight: John Tukey”