The next meeting of the Manchester RSS Local Group:
Wednesday December 3rd 2003 at MMU,
Tea in E30 @ 4.30pm, talk in E34 @ 5.00pm
Statistical resources for Business and Industry
John Logsdon, Quantex Research Ltd, Manchester
Business and industrial applications have long been statistical
Cinderellas. Fragmented industry, sparse perceived demand, disinterested
supply and a tendency to use some packaged approach has meant that
advanced statistical techniques are late at the Ball.
Why should this be so? In this industry-centred talk, we first compare
the standard approaches used by industry and the industrial sectors of
various countries. We see how difficult it can be for industry to use
approaches that we, as statisticians, believe would be of immense use.
But statisticians are, above all things, problem solvers. We have a
problem in our own back yard - how should we solve this?
We consider the ASA experience, discuss the RSS probes into business and
industry and the more recent European movement around ENBIS.
We then turn to an internet-based approach that has, as one of it's aims,
the promotion of advanced statisical techniques by providing the tools
that freelance - and other - statisticians really need within a
business-orientated context.
See http://www.rss-manchester.org/Dec-3-2003/Flyer.html
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