Word: statisticians
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Among the most respected critics is Andrew Solow, a statistician at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Policy Center in Massachusetts. Solow asserts that the computer models used to predict the greenhouse effect are so weak that they cannot even account for the modest 0.5 degrees C warming that has occurred over the past 100 years. "We all believe in the physics of the greenhouse effect," says Solow, "but to say almost anything about timing, the magnitude of change or its geographic distribution is more than...
...Frederick Mosteller, Harvard's Lee professor of mathematical statistics emeritus, will be named Statistician of the Year by the Boston chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA) on Saturday, an ASA official said yesterday...
...concerned, he's the greatest living bio-statistician," said Thomas C. Chalmers, a visiting professor at the school of Public Health. "He is renowned throughout the world...
This is the first year the Boston chapter of ASA, the nation's oldest, has named a Statistician of the Year. The award "is mostly to honor him and show the recognition of his peers," said Jimmy Thomas Efird, the chapter's secretary...
...great degree, American business has turned to its principal competitor, Japan, to learn how to restore quality. Ironically, what U.S. executives think of as "the Japanese method" was pioneered largely by an American statistician, W. Edwards Deming, 89, who began preaching the quality gospel to receptive Japanese industrialists in 1950. During the 1980s, thousands of U.S. companies borrowed the so-called quality-circle concept, in which teams of employees are encouraged to participate actively in monitoring and improving their part of the production process...