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Questions tagged [academia]

The community pursuing research, education or scholarship, typically although not universally in universities.

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Statistics published in academic papers

I read a lot of evolutionary/ecological academic papers, sometimes with the specific aim of seeing how statistics are being used 'in the real world' outside of the textbook. I normally take the statistics in papers as gospel and use the papers to…
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Statistics collaboration

As a biologist, many of the research projects I work on at some point involve collaboration with a statistician, whether it be for simple advice or for implementing and testing a model for my data. My statistics colleagues admit that they do a…
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Is ArXiv popular in the statistics community?

I know that the physics and math communities are very into ArXiv, but what about the stats community? Is it customary to post there before submission?
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Generalized additive models -- who does research on them besides Simon Wood?

I use GAMs more and more. When I go to provide references for their various components (smoothing parameter selection, various spline bases, p-values of smooth terms), they are all from one researcher -- Simon Wood, at the University of Bath, in…
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How do you keep up to date with the latest research?

After reading this question regarding arXiv and finding a link to GitXiv which I was previously unaware of, I wondered, what websites/resources do people use to keep up to date on the latest research in their area?
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Advice For Graduate Students in Statistics

I have started my PhD in statistics this year, and I am looking for your best-practices, advice and (meta-advises) regarding how to grow and become a good academic researcher in the fields of statistics/ML. General thoughts and links are welcomed,…
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Good examples of statistics sections in applied academic journal articles

I am a biostatistician working in an applied field and I am responsible for writing the statistics methods section for the papers I collaborate on. In reading a lot of academic papers I've come across plenty of examples of badly written stats…
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What are important pure mathematics courses for a prospective statistics PhD student?

I know that linear algebra and analysis (especially measure theory) are important. Is it helpful to take graduate level courses in real and complex analysis? Should I take courses in abstract algebra beyond the introductory courses, e.g.,…
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Is it allowed to refer to Artificial Neural Networks as Statistical learning?

I am producing a research statement to be sent to a statistics department and I was trying to avoid the term Machine learning in favour of the more friendly one of Statistical learning. Probably I could not avoid such use.
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Skills & coursework needed to be a data analyst

I am graduating with a bachelor's degree in applied math and I will pursue a master's degree in statistics this fall. There are many specialized fields in applied statistics. I realize I may be more interested in becoming a data analyst, working…
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Do I have to learn SAS if I want to go into industry?

I am currently a PhD student in Biostatistics (finishing my 2nd year). My original goal when entering graduate school was to go into academia. Recently I have been debating this choice and wondering if perhaps industry will be a better fit. I come…
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What university level statistics courses are considered advanced/hard?

I've recently been looking for top-of-the-line statisticians in a recruiting process for our company. Myself, I'm a Physics Engineering major. I gather that great mathematical statisticians have studied a bit different courses, and much more in…
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What does "large grant" mean in machine learning?

Rob Tibshirani, a statistician at Stanford university, created this amusing comparison between machine learning and statistics: What does "large grant" here mean?
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What statistical tools does a analyst (financial) require?

I just graduated in engineering where I have a very strong background in pure maths, but unfortunately I didnt study any statistics in my course. I know calculus, probability theory, measure theory, analysis etc. But I have not done any courses on…
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Reporting of Neural Network Accuracy for Academic Publications

I'm an academic researcher, working with Convolutional Neural Networks, particularly for image classification. In academic publications, a typical metric for evaluating the performance of a recognition pipeline is the classification accuracy. What I…
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